{"id":78272,"date":"2026-09-04T07:55:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T07:55:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T12:55:03","slug":"us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East<\/p>\n<p>US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and \u2060statements given to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>The development follows reports \u200bthat commercially available location data had been used to target American forces in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/04\/military-disables-phone-ad-trackers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator releases letters from armed forces after reports of location data being used to track US troops in Middle East US military officials say they have disabled advertising trackers on a range of phones and computers, according to letters released on Friday by the US senator Ron Wyden and \u2060statements given to Reuters. The development &#8230; <a title=\"US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/04\/us-military-disables-ad-trackers-on-troops-phones-amid-security-fears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US military disables ad trackers on troops\u2019 phones amid security fears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}