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Command Brief / CB-073

The surveillance-economy kill chain

Sold as Ads, Used for Targeting

The intelligence

In April 2026 a US military command told Congress of threat reports that adversaries were exploiting commercial location data against personnel in theater. This brief asks how the ordinary advertising pipeline behind that data reaches the households of a protected population, and which of its inputs a principal can contest. Built from the command's written responses, a congressional letter, academic research on broker sales of military data and earlier tracking investigations. For family offices and security leads.

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Counter-SurveillanceData BrokersThreat DoctrinePattern of LifeExecutive Protection