Subj : Want to know what EU officials are up to? Call a data broker
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Wed Nov 05 2025 18:15:09

Want to know what EU officials are up to? Call a data broker

Date:
Wed, 05 Nov 2025 18:03:00 +0000

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Reporters have used data brokers to access location and movement information 
of EU Commissioners.

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sts used data brokers to track EU Commissioners in their daily lives This 
used free samples from brokers, with 5,800 location pings This information 
would be invaluable in espionage campaigns targeting the EU 

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. 

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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 
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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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