Journalists from several European publications have discovered how easily high-ranking EU officials can be spied on using location history obtained commercially and sold by data brokers, despite the fact that European countries have some of the strictest data protection laws in the world.
The data set also included the location history of high-ranking European officials, including those working directly for the European Commission.
The reporters stated that they were able to identify hundreds of devices belonging to people working in sensitive areas of the EU, including 2,000 location markers from the devices of 264 officials and approximately 5,800 location markers from over 750 devices in the European Parliament.
Three high-ranking officials working for the EU were identified in an investigation into phone location data sold by data brokers. Other phones were located in NATO sites and Belgian military bases.
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