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gunianyesterday at 10:47 PM1 replyview on HN

This sounds super cool where can I get/buy this data? Would be a fun dataset to mess around with

Any idea why it is unidirectional? If the data is openly available why can't the Russians track US/Ukrainian agents the same way?


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miki123211yesterday at 11:01 PM

As far as I understand, many of those brokers are specific to Russia, and get their data specifically from Russian sources which Ukrainians are unlikely to be involved with.

Russian officials / employees are easier to bribe, so there are brokers selling access to car ownership / license plate records, cell phone location records and call logs, passport records etc.

There's a good Bellingcat article on this at https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2020/12/14/navalny-fsb-...

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