“Its Ministry of Defense announced in January that it would make millions of data points gathered during tens of thousands of drone flights available to both military contractors and commercial companies, and since then more than 100 companies and the UK government have gained access.”

“Bad actors could acquire the data, but purchase controls already mitigate that risk. Intelligence operatives scrutinize potential customers’ infrastructure for ways that data could reach enemies or nefarious actors.”

Something tells me that every serious intelligence service already has copies of this data. There is no way to secure 100 different companies, and definitely not forever. Purchase controls mitigate the risk, really?