# Mobile Advertising Identifier **Entity class:** Concept or operational method **Domain:** Data Markets ## Definition Device-associated advertising identifiers can connect observations across applications and data products. In the article's market account, those identifiers help link location histories and behavioral records. ## Operational role Commercial data supplies the collection and enrichment layers of a modern intelligence pipeline. Acquisition, licensing, identity linkage, timestamps, and API delivery determine how a supplier’s records become a client’s usable information. Procurement fluency matters because each technical gate also creates a professional role or a business requirement. **Architecture connections:** [[wiki/OSINT|OSINT]] · [[wiki/Entity Resolution|Entity Resolution]] · [[wiki/Intelligence Fusion|Intelligence Fusion]]. ## Relationships - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Identity Resolution|Identity Resolution]]. - **article-linked mechanism or framework:** [[wiki/Geolocation Brokerage|Geolocation Brokerage]]. - **collection route:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]]. - **counterterrorism architecture:** [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]. - **source article:** [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. ## Sources / Provenance - [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft#VII. The Data Broker Economy: The Substrate Beneath OSINT|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft — VII. The Data Broker Economy: The Substrate Beneath OSINT]] — October 2026 revision; immediate source for this entry’s place in the marketplace. - [EPIC, Data Brokers.](https://epic.org/issues/consumer-privacy/data-brokers/) - [Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, Data Brokers.](https://privacyrights.org/data-brokers) - [Emile Ayoub and Elizabeth Goitein, Brennan Center for Justice, Closing the Data Broker Loophole (February 13, 2024).](https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/closing-data-broker-loophole) ## Connected marketplace roles The source article connects this entry with [[wiki/Geolocation Brokerage|Geolocation Brokerage]], [[wiki/Smartphone Telemetry|Smartphone Telemetry]]. These routes locate the associated people, implementations, methods, and operational contexts in [[articles/The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft|The Coming Market for Civilian Spycraft]]. **Collections:** [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]].