Fog Reveal

No. It is a paid platform for qualified organizations. There is no public search you can run without a contract.

The privacy policy is the clearest primary description of the data. Fog says it buys commercially available records from third-party suppliers. Those records are indexed by a mobile advertising identifier — Apple’s IDFA or Google’s advertising ID — and include latitude and longitude. Depending on the supplier, a record may also include an IP address and a user agent. Fog says it does not collect precise location from the phone itself and does not receive a live GPS feed from the device. That is the advertising-identifier model: an app or an ad system observed the device, a broker stored it, and Reveal is a way to ask questions of the store.

The product page describes the questions in general terms: which devices were observed at a place and time, how a device’s observations look over a longer period, and where activity intersects. Fog’s marketing says the data spans more than 200 countries, with a low-latency Location Stream in a smaller set of markets, on the order of 40. Figures like that are the company’s, and they vary by geography because Fog says it does not offer the same product everywhere. Public reporting from 2022, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, described police users drawing areas on a map and then looking at other places those devices had been, including the places the devices spent the night. Fog’s current site says Reveal produces leads, not conclusions about identity or intent. Both statements can be true at once: the interface returns devices, and a device trail is easy to over-read as a person.

This page does not describe how to draw that kind of query. If you are evaluating the product for an organization that is allowed to buy it, the questions that matter are which suppliers, which fields, which countries, whether advertising IDs are visible to the user, how long data is retained, and what the contract requires when a person opts out. Fog’s privacy policy describes a MAID opt-out form. An opt-out does not pull a device out of a copy a customer already downloaded.

Venntel is the sibling listing: another seller of commercially sourced device location, with a public FTC record on its parent. Use neither as a substitute for a record that names a person. Use the free tools in this directory when the lead is a domain, a username, or a file, which is a different question entirely.

Fog Reveal is a commercial device-location product sold to organizations that can contract for it. This directory lists it so the name is not a mystery. It does not provide access and it does not explain how to query people.

A browser product and a managed service are not the same deliverable. Location data is incomplete, it can be wrong, and it is not a substitute for a record or a lawful process. Venntel is the other listing in this category. Do not swap the names.