1. Describe the project U.S. defense contractor PlanetRisk was working on in 2016.

2. What was the goal of the project?

3. What discovery did PlanetRisk employees make? Be specific.

4. What has the U.S. military and government done since then in response to the discovery? (List at least 3.)

5. Re-read paragraphs 12-15.
a) What steps has the European Union taken to protect citizens’ cell phone data?
b) There is no detailed information in the article on China’s communist government’s policy on military use of smart phones, apps, etc.. But what has the Chinese government done to block marketing/data companies from obtaining consumer data?

6. Last year, the National Security Agency (NSA) issued a public bulletin to all military and intelligence-community personnel, urging service members to disable location tracking and other commercial data collection on their phones.
a) What do you think? Should this be a request or an order? Should special ops on a mission have non-military related apps on their phones?
b) What steps do you think individual military personnel could take to prevent enemies from obtaining any info from their phones?
c) Ask a family member / friend in the military his/her opinion.