US Military: Data Brokers Used to Target American Troops in War Zones
Lawmakers criticize Pentagon for years of inaction in protecting troops from adversaries exploiting commercial location data.
- U.S. Central Command confirmed to lawmakers it received threat reports that adversaries are exploiting commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. forces in active war zones, marking the first official admission of such battlefield vulnerability.
- Senator Ron Wyden and a bipartisan group of legislators prompted the disclosure in a letter sent last Thursday to the Pentagon, urging officials to start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.
- Representative Pat Harrigan, a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer, warned that browsers like Chrome "are built from the ground up to collect and share user data," effectively handing adversaries a weapon against troops.
- Alphabet's Google defended its browser, stating Chrome has "industry-leading security" and that the company has "long advocated for stronger rules and safeguards against data brokers" amid the ongoing debate.
- While journalists recently used billions of coordinates to expose movements around 11 U.S. military and intelligence sites in Germany, the threat dates back to 2016, when a contractor tracked special operations forces in Syria.
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