Privacy Matters: New Mexico AG Warned about Unregulated Data Broker Industry; U.S. Military Now Says Deployed Forces Were Targeted

Albuquerque, NM – On March 24, 2026, New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez led a coalition of 17 attorneys general urging Congress to act on the growing risk to individual privacy and national security through the unchecked collection and use of personally identifiable information by commercial data brokers. There is now reporting by Reuters that U.S. Central Command disclosed on April 14 that it had “received multiple threat reports” about entities exploiting commercially obtained location data to target or surveil servicemembers deployed in combat zones.

The March letter warned that the “data broker loophole” that allowed federal agencies to obtain detailed information about Americans’ movements, associations, and daily lives—information otherwise only accessible via warrant or other legal procedures—was also rife for abuse by forces seeking to compromise national security. The Reuters report provides this is now happening to our troops in theater.

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New Mexico is at the forefront of this effort, calling on Congress to establish clear guardrails before these data collection and surveillance practices become further entrenched.

Attorney General Torrez was joined in sending the March letter by the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawai’i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington.

See the Reuters story here: Exclusive: Pentagon says US military personnel are reportedly being targeted using location data.