Prohibiting the Sale of Precise Geolocation Data (lawfaremedia.org)

• Commercial sale of geolocation data poses systemic security risks.
• Movement profiling exposes sensitive infrastructure to hostile intelligence.
• Legislative push to restrict data broker activities in the EU.

"Legislative proposals are emerging to ban the commercial sale of precise geolocation data, citing critical threats to national security. Data brokers currently harvest movement patterns that inadvertently expose sensitive infrastructure and government activities to foreign intelligence. The proposed ban seeks to curb the unchecked monetization of movement profiles, enhancing European digital resilience by closing a primary vector for non-state and state-sponsored reconnaissance."