Mike Yeagley joins me to break down how mobile devices, ad tech, commercial location data, and data brokers create major OPSEC risks for service members, case officers, and anyone working in national security. He explains how adversaries can buy or exploit pattern-of-life data, why privacy settings often don’t go far enough, and what the future of tradecraft looks like in an age of ubiquitous technical surveillance.
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00:00 — Start / Mike Yeagley joins Eyes On Geopolitics
00:25 — Mobile devices, ad tech, and the OPSEC risk to operators
03:14 — Commercial location data and how adversaries can target U.S. personnel
04:57 — Why privacy settings don’t actually protect your data
07:12 — Ad IDs, GPS toggles, and how apps still resolve your location
10:33 — Could Iran use commercial data to target U.S. troops?
14:19 — How adversaries buy data through brokers and proxies
19:25 — Why regulating the data economy is so difficult
22:10 — How commercial data erodes tradecraft and operational ambiguity
29:24 — What case officers and operators can do to reduce digital exposure
36:17 — Ubiquitous technical surveillance and the future of human intelligence
41:45 — Russia and Iran using gaming platforms, crypto, and gig-style tasking
47:24 — Near-real-time data buys, pattern-of-life tracking, and final thoughts
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