Call on the Department of Defense to prevent the collection and sale of servicemembers’ personal information and adopt safeguards such as disabling smartphone advertising IDs.

Heinrich joined a letter calling on DoD to prevent the collection and sale of servicemembers’ personal information, including phone location data, and to adopt common-sense safeguards such as disabling smartphone advertising IDs.

Heinrich urged the Department of Defense to stop the collection and sale of servicemembers’ personal data and to add safeguards against location-data tracking.

In letter to DoD, Heinrich Reveals That Foreign Adversaries Are Using Commercial Location Data to Target U.S. Servicemembers in the Middle East, Calls on DoD to Adopt Commonsense Safeguards to Protect U.S. Troops
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AP reported that Martin Heinrich joined Ron Wyden and Sara Jacobs in a letter urging a broader protection zone for commercial location data, warning that data brokers’ sale of Americans’ location data can expose sensitive government employee movements to espionage.

This shows Heinrich was actively pressing on the same commercial-location-data threat during the lookback window, but it is not the specific DoD/service-member action described in the claim.

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Lawmakers warn data protection rules don’t protect key sites, including White House and CIA
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WIRED reported on a bipartisan letter to the Pentagon CIO asking DoD to disable advertising IDs on military phones, pull Chrome from government devices, and enroll service members in state data-broker opt-out systems.

This is the closest match to the promise’s requested safeguard, but the article does not identify Heinrich by name in the letter and does not show the policy was adopted.

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The Pentagon Knew Enemies Could Track Troops’ Phones for Years. Now They Are
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Business Insider said lawmakers told the Pentagon that DoD had not taken basic steps to protect military personnel from the collection and sale of personal information, including cell phone location data, and noted DoD was working on stronger ad-tracking restrictions on government-issued devices.

This indicates partial movement by DoD on related phone-tracking safeguards, but not a completed, Heinrich-attributed delivery of the broader promise.

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The same location data that helps apps and advertisers track everyday phone users could be putting US troops at risk
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