We have nothing but respect for Norway, but HN is an English-language site, so articles here need to be in English.<p>I'm sorry, but we have enough trouble getting this audience to read the articles as it is.
A bit of context for non-Norwegians: The government owned media NRK bought location data from Tamoco worth approximately 3,400 USD.<p>The NRK subsidiary NRKbeta has "connected the dots" from that data set. In this article they present how they could track down military personnel visiting restricted military sites in Norway, including the disputed radar installation in Vardø, close to the Russian border.
This reminds me of an experiment I'd like someone to run on Strava. They had this big scandal some time ago where People identified US military bases simply by having a lot of activity in an otherwise empty area.<p>Now they've added some mojo to prevent this but still sell location data.<p>So how about running the same attack but instead of using the browser and their own website just use the bought location data.<p>I suspect they didn't fix that as I've disabled appreaing on their heatmap but they still sold my location data when I forgot to disable my vpn during a run some time ago.
"On average app publishers make $10,000 a month with Tamoco data monetization."<p><a href="https://www.tamoco.com/blog/best-app-revenue-calculator/" rel="nofollow">https://www.tamoco.com/blog/best-app-revenue-calculator/</a>
Google translate: <a href="https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nrk.no%2Fnorge%2Fxl%2Fnorske-offiserer-og-soldater-avslort-av-mobilen-1.14890424" rel="nofollow">https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&u=https...</a><p>Original article is in Norwegian.
Reminded me of this New York Times article where they got hold of location data from 12 million americans.
I think NRK found some inspiration from that.<p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/locat...</a>
Something similar has happened before: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16249955</a>