The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are Highlight

In a May 2025 technical report, the Army Cyber Institute at West Point found that more than a fifth of the most-visited web domains on the service's stateside unclassified networks were commercial trackers—and that the fixes required “minimal funding or resources.” Among its recommendations: Restrict the installation of Google’s Chrome browser on Army workstations, noting it was the only major browser that had declined to block the third-party cookies used to follow users across the web. A year later, a bipartisan group of lawmakers writing to the Pentagon are now asking for the same thing.