This technology company works to monitor American military personnel

Last year, a Media investigation It revealed that Datastream Group, a data -based data broker, was selling very sensitive site data that followed the United States of Military and Intelligence abroad. At that time, the origin of that data was unknown.

Now, a message was sent to the American Senator Ron Widen Office, which was obtained by an international group of media-including the wireless media and 404 media-reported that the final source of these data is Eskimi, which is an unknown Latanian Latanian company.

ESKIMI highlights the mysterious and interconnected nature of the site data industry: Lithuania has provided data on military personnel in Germany to a data broker in Florida, which can mainly sell these data to anyone mainly.

“There are global risks of threats from the inside, from some unknown advertising companies, and those companies are mainly destroying all these systems by misuse and selling these very sensitive data for brokers who sell them to governmental and private interests,” says Zach Edwards. The great threat analyst at Silent Push Cyblesecurity, referring to the widespread ecosystem of advertising technology.

In December, the joint investigation by WIRED, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and Netzpolitik.org analyzed a free sample of the site data provided by Datastream. The investigation revealed that Datastream was providing access to the exact location data from devices that are likely to belong to American military personnel and intelligence abroad – including in German air boats that are believed to store US nuclear weapons. Datastream is a data broker in the site data record, where he gets data from other service providers and then sells it to customers. Its website previously said that it has been displayed “online advertising, along with emails, cookies, and mobile phone website data.”

This data collection contains 3.6 billion site coordinates, some of which were recorded at intervals, from up to 11 million mobile ads in Germany over one month. Data is likely to be collected through SDKS (software development groups) included in mobile applications by developers who intentionally merge tracking tools in exchange for revenue sharing agreements with data brokers.

After this report, the Wyden office demanded answers from Datastream Group about its role in trafficking in the data of the American military personnel website. In response, define Datastream Eskimi as its source, saying that he obtained the data “legally from a respectable third party provider, Eskimi.com.” “Eskimi has no or has any commercial relationship with the Datasys/Datastream group,” says Vytautas PaukStys, “Eskimi CEO,” Eskimi, has no commercial relationship with the Datasys/Datastream group, “referring to another name used by Datastream, and that Eskimi is not a data broker.”

In an e -mail, she answers detailed questions from the reports collection, describing M. Seth Lubin, a lawyer representing Datastream Group, data as legally sources by third party. While Lubin acknowledged Wyden that the data was intended for use in the digital advertisement, the collective reports have confirmed that it was never intended to resell it. Lubin refused to reveal the source of the data, citing the non -disclosure agreement, and refused to collectively analyze the reports as a reckless and misleading.

The Ministry of Defense (DOD) refused to answer specific questions related to our investigation. However, in December, a Dod Javan Rasnake spokesman said that the Pentagon realizes that geographical location services can endanger employees and urged service members to remember their training and adhere to operational security protocols.

In an email, Keith Chu, the chief telecommunications consultant and deputy director of politics at WYDEN, explained how their office tried to deal with the Data Protection Authority in Eskimi and Lithuania (DPA) for several months. The office contacted Akimi on November 21 and did not receive a response, says Zhu. Then the employees of DPA called several times, “raising concerns about the impact of the national security of Lithuania that sells the site’s data on American military personnel who serve abroad.” After not receiving any response, Wydeen staff called the defense attaché at the Litoanian embassy in Washington, DC.