Hacker Breaches Securus, the Company That Helps Cops Track Phones Across the US (vice.com)

Securus, the company which tracks nearly any phone across the US for cops with minimal oversight, has been hacked, Motherboard reported Wednesday. From the report: The hacker has provided some of the stolen data to Motherboard, including usernames and poorly secured passwords for thousands of Securus' law enforcement customers. Although it's not clear how many of these customers are using Securus's phone geolocation service, the news still signals the incredibly lax security of a company that is granting law enforcement exceptional power to surveill individuals. "Location aggregators are -- from the point of view of adversarial intelligence agencies -- one of the juiciest hacking targets imaginable," Thomas Rid, a professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins University, told Motherboard in an online chat.

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Re:Am I in the list?

[SeaFox]

How does someone find out if they are in the list and being watched?
Paranoid

The list is of Securus' law enforcement customers, not individual citizens. And there is no "list of people being watched" here. The data is already being collected on everyone, it's just a matter of if a Securus customer made any requests about you. Without more info on how one uses the service, it's hard to tell if there is a record of who was tracked.