THE GLOBAL SURVALLENCE ECONOMY: You Phone Is A Tracking Device And Facebook And Other Social Media Outlets Know About You Than Your Mother PENTAGON: Pentagon Says US Military Personnel Are Reportedly Being Targeted Using Location Data..,. #SMH...As Putin Says How Do You Think I Lost Scores Of Generals In The Ukraine?... AMERICAN DATA BROKERS SELLING USA TROOP LOCATIONS:  U.S. forces deployed to war zones have been targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance economy is shaping the battlefield. WASHINGTON (REUTERS) - In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, U.S. Central Command said it had “received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater." The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom's area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where U.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz. The disclosure was the first official confirmation that U.S. forces had been targeted in an active war zone, Wyden and a bipartisan group of legislators said in a letter sent on Thursday to the Pentagon. "Commercial location data can be used to identify where U.S. troops congregate and their pattern of life, which can be exploited by adversaries to target attacks such as missiles, drones, and roadside bombs, as well as for counterintelligence purposes," the letter warned. Wyden said in a statement that it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."  The Pentagon did not return messages seeking comment. The lawmakers said in their letter that their efforts to obtain more information from military officials about the reported targeting had been unsuccessful.  Location data is widely used in digital advertising, which is a key source of revenue for many tech companies. Such data is typically collected from smartphones or other devices by apps or service providers before being sold to data brokers who collate and resell the data, sometimes via complex networks of intermediaries.  msn.com/en-us/news/us/ar-AA2…  FILED UNDER:  #SurveillanceEconomy, #LocationData, #USMilitary, #TroopTracking, #DataBrokers, #AdTechThreat, #NationalSecurity, #PentagonWarning, #CommercialTracking, #PhoneSpying, #RonWyden, #Centcom, #IranThreat, #StraitOfHormuz, #MilitarySurveillance, #DataPrivacy, #AdversaryExploitation, #GlobalSurveillance, #TroopLocations, #SmartphoneTracking, #BigTechSurveillance, #PrivacyVsSecurity, #USForcesTargeted, #LocationTracking, #WarZoneData, #DigitalSurveillance, #DataBrokerScandal, #MilitaryPrivacy, #AdTechRegulation, #SurveillanceCapitalism, #USDefense, #IranConflict, #TroopSafety, #PhoneAsTracker, #FacebookTracking, #SocialMediaSurveillance, #NationalSecurityThreat, #DataExploitation, #MilitaryIntelligence, #CentcomReport, #PrivacyFail, #TrackingDevices, #DefenseDataBreach, #SurveillanceBattlefield, #TechAccountability, #MilitaryTargeting, #LocationDataAbuse, #SurveillanceState

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