Jeder kann Daten kaufen, die US-Soldaten und Spione bis hin zu Atomdepots und Bordellen in Deutschland verfolgen – Mehr als 3 Milliarden Telefonkoordinaten, die von einem US-Datenbroker gesammelt wurden, enthüllen die detaillierten Bewegungen von US-Militärs und Geheimdienstmitarbeitern in Deutschland – und das Pentagon ist machtlos, sie zu stoppen .

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An analysis of 3.6 billion coordinates reveals the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers, moving from nuclear bases to Aldi grocery stores to brothels, a WIRED analysis with Bayerischer Rundfunk and netzpolitik.org reveals.

The findings provide vivid examples of the significant risks the unregulated sale of phone location data by US data firms and how they can pose a risk to the integrity of its military and the safety of its service members and their families overseas.

How does this work? Before a targeted ad appears on an app or website, third-party software often embedded in apps called software development kits (SDK) shares information about their users to data brokers, real-time bidding platforms, and ad exchanges—often including location data. Data brokers often will collect that data, analyze it, repackage it, and sell it.

These unique identifiers are used by the advertising industry to serve personalized ads to smartphones, and also allow companies to track user behavior and target ads effectively.  However, ad IDs can also reveal much more sensitive information, particularly when combined with precise location data.  

Experts caution that this poses a huge risk as it could give access to foreign governments that could use this data to identify individuals with access to sensitive areas, give criminals the ability to see where US nuclear weapons are least guarded, and spies leverage embarrassing information for blackmail.  

Just this month, German authorities arrested a 37-year-old former civilian contractor employed by the US military on suspicion of passing sensitive information about American military operations in Germany to Chinese intelligence agencies.

Full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/](https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-us-soldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/)

Congress could make tracking this information amongst many other things illegal by U.S. businesses

The answer is to store your nuclear materials under the brothels, then you can send your soldiers and spies to work with the nuclear materials and the enemy will simply think they are horny 😛