The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are

The article reveals that commercial location-data brokers have enabled adversaries to track and target U.S. troops in the Middle East; CENTCOM confirmed multiple threat reports of such exploitation. It recounts years of warnings to the Pentagon and lawmakers about the risks of commercially available location data, notes limited policy fixes that left the industry largely unregulated, and provides a 2016 example demonstrating how easily troop movements could be mapped from sold data.