El País: From Tinder to running apps: Cellphones become a front for recruitment, spying, and sabotaging the enemy (Dr. Thorsten Wetzling)

The report Data Bought, Rights Ignored by Corbinian Ruckerbauer and Dr. Thorsten Wetzling identified clear indicators of commercially acquired personal data being utilized for intelligence purposes across several European nations, including Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. The research, highlighted in El País, shows how intelligence services exploit unregulated commercial data markets and "Surveillance as a Service" providers to gather sensitive location and behavioral profiles without adequate legal frameworks or oversight.