"It is worryingly easy to get hold of personal and sensitive data on American military and intelligence personnel. Earlier this year investigative journalists reported that a Florida-based data broker had marketed 3.6 billion location coordinates from devices belonging to U.S. military and intelligence staff stationed in Germany, with the data allegedly sourced through a Lithuanian advertising technology company. The dataset reportedly tracked movements in and around U.S. military installations and even recorded alleged visits by military personnel to German brothels."
"Yet the parallel surge in data collection through smart-city technologies has received far less attention. the, are deploying advanced information and communications systems to optimize everything from energy use and traffic management to policing and environmental performance. The data emerging from these systems is qualitatively different: continuous, infrastructure-linked, and often directly tied to identifiable individuals and critical sites. Even without commercial resale, such data can easily flow-intentionally or inadvertently-into the hands of U.S. competitors and adversaries, posing a distinct national security risk."
A Florida-based data broker marketed 3.6 billion location coordinates from devices belonging to U.S. military and intelligence staff stationed in Germany, allegedly sourced through a Lithuanian advertising technology company. The dataset tracked movements in and around U.S. military installations and recorded alleged visits to German brothels. Academic research, including a 2023 U.S. Military Academy-funded study, shows advertising supply chains can expose financial and health records of military and intelligence communities. Municipalities are deploying smart-city information and communications systems that produce continuous, infrastructure-linked data tied to identifiable individuals and critical sites. Such real-time, spatially precise data can flow to competitors or adversaries, creating a distinct national security risk.
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