Subj : Want to know what EU offi
To : All
From : Mike Powell
Date : Thu Nov 06 2025 09:17 am
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
o-call-a-data-broker
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