Billions of Data Points
Fog Reveal has been in use since at least 2018, developed by a Virginia-based company called Fog Data Science LLC. Public records show the company was formed two years before that, and the Associated Press reports it was founded by two former high-ranking Department of Homeland Security officials. Among them: Matthew Broderick, who held the title of director of operations from 2005 to 2006. Broderick’s public profiles list him as a vice president and managing partner at the company.
According to GovTribe, a website that tracks federal grants and expenditures, Fog Data Science received upwards of $120,000 from the U.S. Justice Department between 2018 and 2020.
The Fog Reveal app itself claims to have the ability to search from records pertaining to 250 million devices, which equates to tens of billions of individual data points.
