“This change will essentially ensure that military device location data isn’t being included in bulk data sales being done by numerous vendors.”
Several branches disabled advertising IDs on government devices. Troop location data is still for sale anyway. Researchers say it’s leaking from personal phones or from policies nobody bothered to finish rolling out. Wyden and Harrigan are asking why, which is a start, but data brokers have had years to build this pipeline and nobody’s shut it down yet.