NDAA Proposal Targets Troop Mobile Data Risk After CENTCOM Warning

Social media apps are displayed on a mobile phone, in this file photo. Saeed Khan/AFP via Getty ImagesA proposed provision for the FY2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) would require the Pentagon to test technologies aimed at reducing U.S. troops’ exposure to commercial mobile surveillance, after U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) told Congress that adversaries had exploited commercial location data to target or surveil U.S. personnel during Operation Epic Fury.The proposal, prepared for congressional distribution by Joe Weil and Mike Yeagley of Unplugged and obtained by The Epoch Times, would direct the defense secretary to establish a pilot program for “mobile device force protection technologies” intended to reduce operational exposure from application-generated signals.