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The Murky Ad-Tech World Powering Surveillance of US Military Personnel

ID: 41a6523f-103e-545d-894e-be84a99574a5

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Feed Name: WIRED Security

Threat Score
65/100

Date Published: 2025-02-12

Date Updated: 2026-04-26

Author: Joseph Cox, Dhruv Mehrotra

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Investigative reporting revealed that a Florida data broker sold highly precise mobile location data that appears to include U.S. military and intelligence personnel in Germany; Datastream Group claims it sourced the data from Lithuanian ad‑tech firm Eskimi, which denies any commercial relationship. The dataset reportedly contained 3.6 billion coordinates from up to 11 million mobile advertising IDs collected via app SDKs, raising serious national‑security and privacy concerns about how ad‑tech companies collect and trade sensitive location data.

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