{"id":299,"date":"2026-05-28T14:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=299"},"modified":"2026-05-28T14:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T14:37:24","slug":"exclusive-pentagon-says-us-military-personnel-are-reportedly-being-targeted-using-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=299","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><div><div><ul><li>Summary<\/li><li>Companies<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div><\/div><\/div><div>WASHINGTON, May 28 (Reuters) &#8211; U.S. forces deployed to war zones have \u200bbeen targeted using commercially available location data, according to reports fielded by military officials, an illustration of how the global surveillance \u200ceconomy is shaping the battlefield.<\/div><div>In a letter shared with Reuters by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>, U.S. Central Command said it had \u201creceived multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater.&#8221; The message, sent on April 14, offered no further specifics, but Centcom&#8217;s area of responsibility includes the Gulf, where \u200bU.S. forces are facing off against the Iranian military over the Strait of Hormuz.<\/div><div>The disclosure was the first official confirmation that U.S. forces had \u200bbeen targeted in an active war zone, Wyden and a bipartisan group of legislators said in a letter sent on Thursday<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> \u2060to the Pentagon.<\/div><div>&#8220;Commercial location data can be used to identify where U.S. troops congregate and their pattern of life, which can be exploited by adversaries \u200bto target attacks such as missiles, drones, and roadside bombs, as well as for counterintelligence purposes,&#8221; the letter warned. Wyden said in a statement that it \u200bwas time to &#8220;start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat.&#8221;<\/div><div>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.<\/div><h2>LOCATION DATA TRADE FUELS PRIVACY CONCERNS<\/h2><div>Location data is widely used in digital advertising, which is a key source of \u200brevenue for many tech companies. Such data is typically collected from smartphones or other devices by apps or service providers before being sold to data \u200bbrokers who collate and resell the data, sometimes via complex networks of intermediaries.<\/div><div>Although the threat to privacy inherent in selling the details of people&#8217;s day-to-day movements on the open \u200cmarket has \u2060long been a matter of public discussion, its potential as a national security risk has recently drawn concern as well.<\/div><div>As far back as 2016, one U.S. defense contractor was able to leverage commercially available location data to track special operations forces from their bases in the United States to a sensitive staging post in Syria, according to an account first disclosed by the Wall Street Journal<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span>.<\/div><div>More recently, journalists at Wired and two German news outlets drew on billions of coordinates \u200bcollected by a data broker to expose \u200bthe granular comings and goings<svg><\/svg><span>, opens new tab<\/span> of \u2060people stationed at or around 11 U.S. military and intelligence sites in Germany.<\/div><div>Two groups that represent digital advertisers, the Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Association of National Advertisers, did not return emails seeking comment.<\/div><div>The letter from U.S. lawmakers to \u200bthe Pentagon said that, given what military officials know about the trade in location data, they should have \u200bacted faster to protect \u2060their personnel, for example by disabling the unique advertising ID attached to military-issued devices, automatically turning off location sharing on smartphones in the field, and steering staff away from Google&#8217;s Chrome web browser toward more privacy-focused alternatives.<\/div><div>One of the letter&#8217;s cosigners was U.S. Representative Pat Harrigan, a North Carolina Republican who was formerly a U.S. \u2060Army Special \u200bForces officer. 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