Last year, a media research showed that a Florida -based data broker, Datastream, was selling a very sensitive location data that tracked US military and intelligence personnel abroad. At that time, the origin of the data was unknown.
Now, a letter sent to the US Senator Ron Weiden’s office, obtained by an international media collection-including Wired and 404 Media-stated that the final source of this data is skimm, an advertising company. Lithuania is a little known. Meanwhile, Skimi denies that he has had a conflict.
The alleged role of Skimimi and its denial – the matte nature of the location data industry clarifies: a data broker in Florida claims that a Lithuanian company provides data on US military personnel in Germany. These data can be theoretically sold to anyone. But the exact methods of collecting, collecting and sharing data are unclear.
“From some unknown advertising companies, there is a danger of a global self -threatening threat, and these companies are essentially abusing the access and sale of these very sensitive data to brokers who most of the interests of government and private. Sell, all of these systems are broken. ” A senior threat analysis at Silent Push Cyber Security Company, referring to the AD-Tech ecosystem extensively.
In December, joint research by Wired, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and Netzpolitik.org analyzed a free sample of location data provided by Datastream. The investigation showed that Datastream has access to accurate location data from devices probably owned by US military and intelligence employees abroad – including in German waters that appear to save US nuclear weapons. Makes, offers. Datastream is a data broker in the history of location data and provides data from other providers and then sells it to customers. Its website had previously said that “internet advertising data comes with alert emails, cookies and mobile location data”.
The dataset contains 3.6 billion location coordinates, some of which are recorded at millions of mobile advertising IDs in Germany over a one -month period. This data is likely to be collected through SDK (software development kits) embedded in mobile applications by developers who integrate tracking tools for income subscription agreements with data brokers.
Following the report, the WYDEN office called for a response from the Datastream Group on its role in the smuggling of US Army personnel. In response, Datastream introduced Skimimi as his alleged source and claimed that the data “legitimacy from a respected third party provider Eskimi.com”.
Vytautas Paukstys, CEO of ESKIMI, says: “Eskimi has not had a business relationship with the Datasys/Datastream Group or has not had a commercial relationship so far.” “Ekimi has no business relationship with the Datastream Group,” says a company’s next email. “Undoubtedly, Eskimi did not share or sell the location data of military personnel or other data in Germany or Europe with the Datastream Group.”
In an email that answers detailed questions from the reporting collection, M. Seth Lubin, a lawyer for the Datastream Group, legally described the data from a third party. While Lobin acknowledged that data was intended for use in digital advertising, he emphasized the reporting collection that had never been intended for restoration. Lubin refused to disclose the data source, citing a disagreement agreement, and rejected the report of the report recklessly and misleading.
The Department of Defense (DOD) refused to answer specific questions about our research. However, in December, a spokesman for the Defense Ministry, Javan Rosnak, said the Pentagon is aware that geographical services could endanger personnel and urged members of service to remember their training and observe operational security protocols. Do.
