The article discusses a troubling revelation regarding the sale of sensitive location data of US military and intelligence personnel by Florida-based data broker Datastream Group. The source of this data has been traced back to Eskimi, a lesser-known adtech company in Lithuania. This incident sheds light on the complex and often opaque nature of the location data industry, revealing how this data can find its way to unauthorized entities, presenting significant security risks. Experts express concerns about the broader implications of such data practices.
There's a global insider threat risk, from some unknown advertising companies, and those companies are essentially breaking all these systems by abusing their access and selling this extremely sensitive data.
A Lithuanian company provided data on US military personnel in Germany to a databroker in Florida, which could then theoretically sell that data to essentially anyone.
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