US Military Shuts Down Ad Trackers Amid Concerns Over National Security

US military officials have shut down ad trackers in many phones and computers. According to letters from US Senator Ron Wyden and statements to Reuters on Friday, the move follows reports that commercially available location data was used to target US forces in the Middle East. Letters from US Senator Ron Wyden and statements to Reuters on Friday revealed this. The move follows reports that commercially available location data had been used to target US troops in the Middle East. US military officials told Senator Ron Wyden that they had recently turned off ad identifiers in computers and mobile phones. The US Air Force told Wyden that it had turned off ad identifiers in computers two months ago, while US Special Operations Command said in a separate letter to the Air Force that it had recently turned off its Windows Phone mobile phone advertising devices.