One leading privacy lawmaker said it was time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."
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9:21 AM PDT · May 28, 2026
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The U.S. Department of Defense has confirmed that adversaries have targeted and surveilled serving military personnel on the battlefield using commercial location data, the latest demonstration of how information collected from phones and computers can be abused to track and target individuals.
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Commercial location data has been used to "target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater,” CENTCOM says.
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