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   Want to know what EU officials are up to? Call a data broker   
      
   Date:   
   Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:03:00 +0000   
      
   Description:   
   Reporters have used data brokers to access location and movement information   
   of EU Commissioners.   
      
   FULL STORY   
      
   If you're concerned your phone is collecting outrageous amounts of data which   
   could be used for nefarious purposes, youre not alone - and, in fact, youre   
   not wrong, either. Reporters have just revealed how easy it is to conduct   
   sophisticated reconnaissance missions on EU Commissioners with nothing but   
   openly traded information from data brokers.    
      
   A coalition of journalists used preview data from a data broker to ascertain   
   the exact location of hundreds of EU officials - with over 5,800 location   
   pings inside the European Parliament from 756 devices.    
      
   The collective was able to establish movement profiles for EU employees, in   
   which movements could be traced between official housing back and forth   
   between EU parliament, supermarkets, restaurants, religious buildings,   
   parties, and more.    
      
   Privacy is dead    
      
   For most of us, this news will come as an unsurprising but abhorrent invasion   
   of personal digital privacy and as a warning about the scale of mass   
   surveillance carried out by private companies in the name of advertising (or   
   perhaps something even more sinister).    
      
   But, for EU officials there is very real additional consideration of safety   
   and security.    
      
   Most of us will not have to plan our escape routes in case of a political   
   attack, nor do we have to take mitigating actions to protect ourselves from   
   espionage campaigns - but this research reveals EU officials may have to get   
   more serious about data privacy - quick.    
      
   These are not abstract threats, either. The advent of the war in Ukraine has   
   seen a spike in espionage campaigns targeting western allied states, and   
   Chinese hackers target European diplomats with Windows zero-day flaw in   
   cyber-based intrusions.    
      
   Officials are being targeted, and technology and the commercialization of   
   personal data has made this much easier for foreign or domestic adversaries.   
      
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   Link to news story:   
   https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/want-to-know-what-eu-officials-are-up-t   
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