U.S. military personnel in the Middle East are at risk of being surveilled and targeted through the geolocation data on their smartphones, the U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) recently notified lawmakers.
“USCENTCOM has received multiple threat reports concerning adversary exploitation of commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel in theater,” CENTCOM said in a letter it shared with Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on April 14, and which Reuters first reported on May 28.
The disclosure to Wyden came in the days after the United States and Iran concluded 38 days of direct large-scale combat with what remains to be a fragile ceasefire. Since those hostilities with Iran began on Feb. 28, 13 U.S. military personnel have been killed, and hundreds more have been injured….