🔒 Europe’s Hidden Security Gap: Ireland’s Datacentres —————————————————————— Ireland now hosts much of Europe’s critical data and internet traffic. Yet in these vulnerable times, this concentration is becoming a strategic liability. The latest investigation👇shows how Real-Time Bidding (RTB) — the online ad system that leaks personal data billions of times per day — exposes European defence personnel and political leaders to hostile surveillance. Any all to keep a few BigTech players from making more advert profits ? Key findings: • Sensitive data on EU military and political leaders are broadcast via RTB, enabling blackmail, hacking and compromise. • RTB data flows not only across Europe but also to Russia and China, where laws allow state access. • Data often include location, timestamps, device IDs and personal vulnerabilities, making it easy to track and profile individuals. • Surveillance firms weaponise RTB data for profiling at massive scale — including children of targets. • This is a #national #security #problem, not just a privacy issue. In this context, Ireland’s datacentres — the backbone of EU cloud, commerce and communications — are an attractive target and #single #point of #failure. 👉 Is it not time for the EU to step in with serious safeguards and oversight, eliminating this massive security hole before it is too late? The security of #leaders, #institutions, and ultimately our #democracies depends on it. #CyberSecurity #EU #Ireland #NationalSecurity #DataProtection #RTB
"Should a significant national security incident now occur as a result of RTB data we will be obliged to make this correspondence public and clarify where responsibility lies." That day has arrived. Eight years of refusal to protect people by the Irish Data Protection Commission.
Senior Director | Strategic Alliances & Partner Ecosystem Growth | Cybersecurity | SaaS | Cloud GTM Strategy
1dThis is a perfect illustration of how the fault lines of national security have shifted. We’ve hardened borders and militaries, but left the datacentres and ad-tech pipelines—the very arteries of Europe’s information economy—exposed. The RTB issue isn’t just privacy leakage; it’s a systemic vulnerability with state-level consequences.