- Even in death, the
secrets of Jeffrey Epstein remain tightly guarded,
but earlier this year I spearheaded a "WIRED" investigation that uncovered the data of
almost 200 mobile phones belonging to visitors-
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To his infamous pedophile island. The data was so precise we were able to map the
paths of these visitors to within centimeters,
including their neighborhoods, buildings of origin,
and the paths they took to get to the island. These digital trails
document the numerous trips

of wealthy and influential individuals seemingly undeterred by Epstein's status as a convicted sex offender. "WIRED's" analysis of the data is ongoing and it raises profound questions about privacy and surveillance. This is Epstein Island's Secret Data,

On The Grid. This is Little St. James,
AKA, Epstein Island. These red dots on the map represent some of the 11,279 coordinates I obtained. They were left exposed online
by a location data broker with ties to the Defense
Department called,

Near Intelligence, now known as Azira. Between 2016, and Epstein's
final arrest in 2019, Near collected data on
more than 200 cell phones that visited the island. We don't know why they
did that, or which client,

or prospective client of Near, decided to query the data in
this way to produce the maps. But the maps you'll see in this video show where visitors-
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most of their time. Let's take a step back.

You might be wondering where
Epstein Island is, anyways. Well, it's here. Little St. James is a private island that is part of the U.S. Virgin Islands, an unincorporated territory
of the United States in the Caribbean Sea.

Epstein purchased Little St. James in 1998 for $7.95 million. It's about 71 acres, the
size of 54 football fields. He made the island his primary residence and soon after began welcoming visitors and throwing infamous parties

where he was accused of having groomed, sexually assaulted, and trafficked untold numbers of women and girls. The maps of the data collected by Near, and which we at "WIRED" recreated here, indicate the most visited
spots on the island.

From the main house here with the pool, to the beaches and the large sundial, it's all on display including the enigmatic Hilltop
Temple site over here, which has been the focal
point in speculations about Epstein's mysterious
activities on the island.

But the tracking of phones wasn't contained to Little St. James. Surveillance continued long
after the visitors left. The data reveals the locations of visitors 30 minutes before and after
arriving on the island, which shows us the exact routes
everyone took to get there.

Some landed here at the
Cyril E. King Airport on neighboring St. Thomas Island. With its private jet, and VIP terminals, it was the go-to hub-
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Boeing 727 plane dubbed,

Lolita Express. We see data points clustered at various area beaches, hotels, and luxury resorts, including the Ritz-Carlton Hotel here. To get to Epstein's Island, many visitors got on a boat at a designated dock

at the American Yacht Harbor, a private marina on St. Thomas co-owned by Epstein at the time. From there we see a flow of movement through Great St. James Island, a larger island just to the north, which Epstein purchased in 2016 for $22 million.

He had hoped to develop it, but was met with legal challenges after damaging the island's coral reefs and protected habitats. The data then traces visitors' movements as they are ferried to Epstein's private dock on Little St. James. Epstein also had a helipad on the island

and owned at least one helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76, which he used often to transport himself, guests, and victims, from the airport, or elsewhere, according to legal documents and testimony. It's worth noting that the data reveals

a regular flow of traffic to and from Little St. James between 2016 and 2019. A lot of people were visiting the island even after Epstein had pleaded guilty in 2008 and served jail time for procuring a minor for prostitution.

If we keep following the data trail, and we widen our view, we'll see that the tracking of visitors continues once they have left the island and presumably gone back home. The Near Intelligence data we uncovered pinpoints 166 locations throughout the United States

and 80 cities across 26 states. Topping the list were
Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York. The data points are labeled
as common evening locations, or common daytime locations, typically their homes or work.

Many of the visitors were likely wealthy, as indicated by coordinates
pointing to gated communities in Michigan, as well as
homes in Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket in Massachusetts. We even have data points from
a downtown Miami nightclub

and also the sidewalk across the street from Trump Tower in New York City. Before we jump to conclusions, some sources have highlighted interactions between Donald Trump and Jeffrey
Epstein at social events. But after Epstein's 2008 conviction, there are no verified reports

of Trump maintaining a relationship with the convicted pedophile. Take a look at this point
over here in New Mexico. This is a property that
was owned by Epstein, a secluded 8,000-acre ranch. Another property of
Epstein's is seen over here

on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, Florida. This waterfront mansion
was sold, demolished, and is now being rebuilt, but it was where prosecutors claimed Epstein trafficked
numerous underage girls with the intention of
molesting and abusing them.

But we don't just see the coordinates of wealthy homes amongst the data, the median household income of Palm Beach is more than twice that
of nearby communities where we also see data points. Some of these points
could represent victims, or employees, who worked on the island,

which is why we're careful
about revealing names and continue to carefully
analyze the data. If we zoom out more we
notice something strange. There are no data points
anywhere in Europe. Does this mean it was strictly Americans visiting Jeffrey Epstein on his island?

No, we do see data points from the cache identifying origin cities in Australia, the Cayman Islands, and way over here in Kiev in Ukraine. We know that Epstein himself
had a place in Paris, and we know from victim
testimony, and flight logs,

that his associate, Jean-Luc Brunel, owner of a modeling agency in Paris, did visit the island, so why
don't we see these data points? One possibility could be
Europe's extensive privacy laws considered the strongest privacy and security law in the world,

the General Data Protection
Regulation, GDPR, gives Europeans robust
rights to their personal data even outside of Europe. Under comparatively lax U.S. privacy laws, Near Intelligence was able
to source its location data for this precision surveillance. To explain how this data

might have been collected
in the first place, we need to talk about the
world of digital advertising and data brokers. The reason you get a targeted ad displayed on an app, or a website, is because apps on your phone have been transmitting
information about you

to ad exchanges and
real-time bidding platforms, that information often
includes your location data. Data brokers, like Near Intelligence, extract, repackage, analyze, and sell the data from these ad platforms. In fact, according to internal
company documents from 2019,

Near Intelligence, which has roots in Singapore
and Bengaluru, India, claimed to have information
on around 1.6 billion people in 44 countries. They offer a platform for searching that allows their clients
to query their vast dataset by drawing a box around a specific area,

like Little St. James.
Near then provides insights about the devices it observed
within the selected area. We don't know who or why
someone searched Epstein Island, but the reports and maps they created were sitting unprotected
and totally searchable as publicly accessible code,

and that's where we found them. And those aren't the only
Near Intelligence data sets that we found. Google's web crawlers were able to locate at least two other reports, one geofencing the Westfield
Mall in the Netherlands,

and another targeting a
park in El Paso, Texas. This is data unrelated
to our investigation about Epstein Island, but it shows how unsafe
personal data can be. In some cases it's just
a Google search away. So pro tip, if you don't
want your personal data

swimming around in the murky waters of programmatic advertising, make sure you limit ad
tracking on your phone, disable location services
and third party cookies, and use an ad blocker. So what happened to the island after Epstein reportedly committed suicide in a Manhattan federal jail

while awaiting trial for sex trafficking? Well, in May of 2023, billionaire investor, Stephen Ross, purchased both Little St.
James, and Great St. James, for $60 million. He's currently building a luxury resort

on Little St. James that he says could open as early as 2025. Also, Ghislaine Maxwell, former British socialite, 
and Epstein accomplice, was convicted in 2021 on five counts, including sex trafficking
of minors by force.

Maxwell was arrested in
Bradford, New Hampshire, tracked to a million-dollar
home by federal agents using location data pulled
from her cell phone. I'm Dhruv Mehrotra. The "WIRED" investigation into the secret data of
Epstein's Island continues.

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엡스타인 섬의 비밀 데이터에 대한 조사

조사 결과 엡스타인 섬 방문객의 휴대폰 200여 대에서 데이터가 발견되었습니다.

데이터는 섬의 출발지와 경로를 포함하여 방문객의 이동 경로를 센티미터 단위로 정밀하게 매핑했습니다.

데이터에는 엡스타인이 유죄 판결을 받은 성범죄자 신분임에도 불구하고 부유하고 영향력 있는 개인들의 수많은 여행이 기록되어 있습니다.

2016년부터 2019년 사이에 수집된 위치 데이터 브로커 Near Intelligence(현 Azira)에서 얻은 데이터입니다.

Near Intelligence의 데이터 수집 목적과 데이터를 쿼리한 사람은 아직 알려지지 않았습니다.

1998년에 구입한 미국령 버진아일랜드에 있는 엡스타인의 개인 섬, 리틀 세인트 제임스.

엡스타인은 이 섬을 주요 거주지로 삼아 여성과 소녀들을 학대했다는 의혹이 제기된 파티를 열었습니다.

데이터 지도에는 본관, 해변, 힐탑 사원 등 섬에서 가장 많이 방문한 명소가 표시되어 있습니다.

섬에 도착하기 30분 전후로 방문객의 동선을 추적하는 등 감시 범위를 섬 밖으로 확장했습니다.

방문객들은 종종 세인트 토마스의 시릴 킹 공항과 아메리칸 요트 하버에서 출발하는 배를 이용했습니다.

데이터는 미국 전역의 26개 주 80개 도시에 걸쳐 166개 지역의 방문자를 추적했습니다.

미시간의 게이트 커뮤니티와 마사 빈야드에 있는 주택 등 부유한 지역이 촬영 장소로 선정되었습니다.

뉴욕의 트럼프 타워와 다른 지역에서도 다양한 사회경제적 배경을 시사하는 데이터 포인트가 나타났습니다.

데이터에는 뉴멕시코와 플로리다 팜비치에 있는 엡스타인의 부동산이 포함되어 있습니다.

일부 데이터 포인트는 피해자 또는 직원을 나타낼 수 있으므로 신원이 노출되지 않도록 주의 깊게 분석해야 합니다.

데이터의 지리적 범위 및 개인정보 보호에 미치는 영향

엡스타인이 유럽에 연고가 있음에도 불구하고 유럽 데이터 포인트가 없는 것은 아마도 더 엄격한 유럽 개인정보 보호법(GDPR) 때문일 것입니다.

호주, 케이맨 제도, 우크라이나의 데이터 포인트가 발견되었습니다.

Near Intelligence의 데이터 수집 관행은 유럽의 GDPR에 비해 미국의 개인정보 보호법이 느슨하다는 점을 강조했습니다.

데이터는 앱에서 위치 데이터를 추출하여 판매하는 디지털 광고 및 데이터 브로커를 통해 수집되었을 가능성이 높습니다.

데이터 브로커 관행 및 데이터 접근성

앱은 위치 데이터를 광고 거래소와 실시간 입찰 플랫폼으로 전송합니다.

Near Intelligence는 44개국 16억 명에 대한 데이터를 보유하고 있다고 주장했습니다.

Near Intelligence의 플랫폼을 통해 고객은 특정 영역을 선택하여 데이터를 쿼리할 수 있습니다.

엡스타인 섬의 보고서와 지도가 공개되었습니다.

다른 니어 인텔리전스 데이터 세트도 발견되어 개인 데이터의 취약성을 강조했습니다.

스티븐 로스는 엡스타인의 섬을 매입하여 고급 리조트를 건설할 계획입니다.

기슬레인 맥스웰은 성매매 혐의로 유죄 판결을 받았습니다.

엡스타인 섬의 비밀 데이터에 대한 WIRED의 조사는 계속되고 있습니다.

We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island | WIRED

We Tracked Every Visitor to Epstein Island | WIRED

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