Your angry birds app is a military spy tool. 📱🎯 We investigate the terrifying reality of "AdTech Surveillance," where the Pentagon and intelligence agencies bypass the Fourth Amendment by simply buying your location data from commercial brokers.

1. Hunting Putin: We break down the shocking revelation from Byron Tau's reporting. A team of US researchers used commercially available advertising data—bid streams from mobile apps—to track the movements of Vladimir Putin's entourage. By isolating phones that moved with the Russian President, they could monitor his secret locations without hacking a single satellite.

2. The "Pattern of Life": It’s not just VIPs; it’s you. We explain how Real-Time Bidding (RTB) works. Every time you open an app with ads, your device broadcasts your precise GPS coordinates to thousands of advertisers. The military buys this firehose of data to build "Patterns of Life" on millions of people, revealing where you sleep, who you sleep with, and where you work.

3. The "Locate X" Tool: We expose the secret software used by the government. Tools like Locate X allow analysts to draw a digital fence around any building—a clinic, a protest, a military base—and instantly see the history of every phone that has entered it. We discuss the legal loophole that makes this possible: the courts have ruled that because you "voluntarily" gave this data to a weather app, the government can buy it without a warrant.