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| covid-19 3 |
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Aac12-000 | Why is the FBI buying peoples location data and how is it using the information? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quote: | Data brokers, which are companies that buy, collect and sell a vast array of data points on Americans with almost no oversight, have been able to cash in on large volumes of granular location data about peoples phones. These companies collect location data, often buying large amounts of it from app developers, and sometimes information about name, gender, health, political preferences and home ownership. Its become a lucrative industry, worth billions of dollars. When you give an app permission to see your location, youre also giving the other companies whose software is embedded in that app access to your location as well, said Lena Cohen, staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF. ... For example, one data broker bought location data from Muslim prayer and dating apps before that information ended up with the US military, according to Vice. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comment: | Commercially available information. Most cellphone application users do not bother to opt out of commercial surveilance that advertisers use to profile them so as to influence them to buy their products. You may turn tracking off. A better solution is to keep your distracting cellphone off and in a metal container most of the time. As one old Vermonter said long ago, the telephone is installed for MY convenience. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Article: | https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/19/fbi-buying-location-data-use | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aac12-001 | Privacy advocates sound alarm on "data broker loophole" used by FBI, other federal agencies | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Quote: | When asked by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., if he could commit to not buying Americans location data, Patel said the FBI uses all tools to do its mission. We do purchase commercially available information thats consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Patel said under oath. It has led to some valuable intelligence for us. ... The keywords are commercially available if any other person can buy it and the FBI can buy it, and it helps them locate a depraved child molester or savage cartel leader, I would certainly hope the FBI is doing anything they can to keep Americans safe, Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., said during the hearing. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Comment: | A number of arsonists and other criminals were caught by using credit card information long before cellphones. The questions are: | Article:
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