Don’t need a warrant when you buy it from people who legally collected the information for you 🧠

And this is why we need privacy laws and harsh penalties in the private sector

Five eyes: We spying in ways against the law in your countries, and you spy in ways against the law in our country. Then we trade info. If someone finds out, what, is the U.S. going to go to war with Britain?

“The American people have a right to know whether the NSA is conducting warrantless domestic surveillance of Americans in a manner that circumvents the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution,”

My guess is that this buying of location data is even one of their smallest violations in this regard.

For many years, the NSA has built entire data centers, just as normal companies buy single servers. Nobody should think that their total surveillance of the internet can (or wants to) spare their own people.

People’s private information is for sale to literally anyone. And the most American thing to do is not to stop that, but to specifically prevent your own security agency from using that info. Anyone else can buy is, it’s perfectly legal for me, or Ford, or the KGB to buy, but god forbid the NSA does it.

Passing privacy laws doesn’t even seem to have been considered as an option.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

As we’ve previously reported, plenty of personal information is available for purchase from commercial data brokers by US government agencies without a warrant.

The Fourth Amendment provides Americans safeguards from unreasonable search and seizures - a protection some, including Senator Wyden, would argue the Feds (and cops to that matter) violate if or when they acquire this info without a warrant.

Wyden said he was told by Uncle Sam’s Defense Intelligence Agency that it, for one, was purchasing American citizens’ location data, and he made that point public in early 2021.

He said he further pressed the Pentagon for the names of other military agencies buying records of people’s whereabouts, browsing histories, and other personal matters, and in March that year got the answers he wanted – but the disclosure was marked “controlled unclassified information” (CUI).

In his statement Wyden makes clear his objections to Haugh’s promotion to the rank of general and nomination to the NSA directorship aren’t personal nor related to his qualifications.

Wyden’s latest effort comes as Congress weighs up the future of FISA Section 702, which is due to expire at the end of this year unless it’s reauthorized, and in certain circumstances allows government snoops to analyze US persons’ private communications without a warrant.

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