{"id":24728,"date":"2026-09-04T14:37:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:37:56","slug":"us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East<\/p>\n<p>US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and \u2060statements given to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows reports \u200bthat commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/04\/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/28a6d4d584aaee15675af89663fbbe5829d4ad4b\/399_0_3990_3192\/master\/3990.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=76fc331774f8779bcd1a61d96ab81c0d\" title=\"US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears\" \/>Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East<br \/>\nUS military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and \u2060statements given to Reuters.<br \/>\nThe development follows reports \u200bthat commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and \u2060statements given to Reuters. The development &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":24729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24728"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}