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Data Brokers Helping Enemies Target US Troops

CENTCOM: Commercial location data have been used to "target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater”

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May 30, 2026
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Adversaries have used commercially available location data to target U.S. servicemembers in war zones, a bipartisan group of lawmakers revealed Thursday.

In a letter to Pentagon CIO Kirsten Davies, 14 members of Congress — led by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Pat Harrigan, R-N.C. — warned that the department “has not taken basic steps to protect U.S. …

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