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Disabling advertising trackers aims to reduce risks from commercially sold location data amid concerns adversaries could use it to track deployed troops. Experts, however, warn other tracking methods remain possible.Learning Outcomes
- Explain how mobile advertising identifiers (MAIDs) and commercially available location data can create security risks for military personnel and operations.
- Analyse the measures taken by U.S. military branches to reduce digital tracking risks.
- Evaluate the effectiveness and limitations of efforts to protect military personnel from location tracking, considering both technological safeguards and remaining vulnerabilities.
