US Military Disables ad Trackers on Soldiers' Phones for Security Reasons
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The US military has begun disabling ad-related trackers on its devices, as they could reveal sensitive data about military activities.
The identifiers used for advertising can help reconstruct the movements of a device. In the USA the problem has become a matter of military security. on macitynet.it The Pentagon turns off advertising trackers: smartphones can reveal where the soldiers are
The US Department of Defense has turned off ad tracking on its military personnel's government-issued mobile phones and computers for security reasons, Reuters reports. The ban is said to have begun earlier this year and includes iPhones and Android phones as well as Windows computers on the military's network. The background is that location data collected by apps can end up with data brokers and then be resold on the commercial market. There, …
In response to growing security risks, several branches of the U.S. military have disabled advertising identifiers on service smartphones and computers. The decision comes after reports that commercially available location data was being used to track and potentially threaten American forces in the Middle East. The U.S. Air Force, Army and Special Operations Command have confirmed that they have gradually blocked these identifiers on their […]
The Pentagon has just drawn a line on a vulnerability as invisible as it is dangerous. By cutting off the advertising identifiers of its devices, the US Army is trying to close a digital hemorrhage that exposed its troops on the ground.
US Military Disables Ad Trackers On Devices To Protect Troops
Slashdot reader DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in targeting troops. Military officials say that they have disabled trackers on a variety of computers and mobile devices, according to letters released on Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, and following reports that commercially-available tracking data has been…
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