In 2021, a secretive technology startup named Anomaly Six pitched an idea to another little

known company, Zignol Labs.

The proposal was that by joining forces, Zignol's corporate and governmental clients could expand

their social media monitoring to not only surveil Twitter activity, but learn where in the

world these tweets came from, and potentially a great deal about the lives of the people who wrote them.

Anomaly Six, also called A6, claims it can track billions of devices in near real time,

and Zignol Labs leverages its access to Twitter data streams to sift through hundreds of millions

of tweets per day without restriction.

The two combined would be an even more powerful surveillance tool.

During the presentation, A6 tracked the movements of the Russian Army along the Ukrainian border,

Chinese submarine positions, and even the American intelligence community.

This was a bold idea.

To demonstrate just how powerful its phone tracking capabilities are, A6 showed Zignol

that they could spy on American spies.

On a satellite map of the US, A6 sales rep, Brendan Clark, drew digital boundaries around

CIA and NSA headquarters.

This is a technique known as geofencing.

Within these boundaries, 183 dots appeared, representing GPS pings from phones that had

visited both locations.

Lines radiated from each dot showing where the phones had traveled, as Clark noted, quote,

�So if I'm a foreign intel officer, that's 183 start points for me now�

Zirwing in on one dot, A6 showed how its software could reveal this individual's movements

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