{"id":12058,"date":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-html\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T07:04:07","slug":"citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law\u00a0enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called\u00a0Webloc.<br \/>\nThe tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is now sold by its successor Penlink after\u00a0the two firms merged in July\u00a02023<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2026\/04\/citizen-lab-law-enforcement-used-webloc.html\">Go to TheHackersNews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Citizen Lab: Law Enforcement Used Webloc to Track 500 Million Devices via Ad Data Hungarian domestic intelligence, the national police in El Salvador, and several U.S. law\u00a0enforcement and police departments have been attributed to the use of an advertising-based global geolocation surveillance system called\u00a0Webloc. The tool was developed by Israeli company Cobwebs Technologies and is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[76],"class_list":["post-12058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thehackersnews","tag-thehackersnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}