The Times said it was easy to track and identify people in secure government sites and learn things about their lives, posing a huge security threat.

  • The New York Times was able to track the movements of President Donald Trump using cellphone data.
  • The Times said it used leaked phone data to track the movements of someone in his entourage, believed to be a Secret Service agent, as well as found the agent’s name and home address.
  • The Times said it replicated the exercise and identified workers at numerous sensitive sites in Washington, DC, including the Pentagon, the Supreme Court, and Capitol Hill.
  • The ease with which non-experts at The Times could do this shows the extreme vulnerability in location data. Hostile states are almost certainly able to do far more
  • — Read on www.businessinsider.com/nyt-tracked-trump-leaked-location-data-mobile-phone-spying-easy-2019-12