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This action was taken due to concerns that foreign adversaries could use commercially available location data to track or target American personnel. The changes were disclosed in letters sent by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden."},{"type":"heading","text":"Disagreement on timing"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"The US Air Force stated it disabled these identifiers two months ago, according to Live Mint. US Special Operations Command disabled them more recently, according to the same report."},{"type":"heading","text":"What the coverage left out"},{"type":"paragraph","text":"None of the left-rated digests mention the specific timing of the disabling of identifiers by the US Air Force or US Special Operations Command. None of the centre-rated digests mention the specific timing of the disabling of identifiers by the US Air Force or US Special Operations Command. 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