Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially obtained location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent having some of the strongest data protection laws in the world.
EU officials said they’re “concerned” about the trade of citizen and officials’ mobile phone location data, and have issued new guidance to staff to counter the tracking, according to a report by Netzpolitik.
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