The Government Uses Targeted Advertising to Track Your Location. Here’s What We Need to Do.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/19/the-government-uses-targeted-advertising-to-track-your-location-heres-what-we-need-to-do/

“So you’re saying that the agency will buy Americans’ location data,” Wyden said. “I believe that that’s what you’ve said in kind of intelligence lingo. And I just want to say as we start this debate, doing that without a warrant is an outrageous end run around the fourth amendment.”
#4thAmendmentViolation #4A #LocationData

#KashPatel admits under oath #FBI is buying location data on Americans.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/kash-patel-fbi-location-data?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/18/kash-patel-fbi-location-data

doing that without a warrant is an outrageous end run around the fourth amendment. It’s particularly dangerous given the use of artificial intelligence to comb through massive amounts of private information.

#FBI #SurveillanceState #ConstitutionalViolation #Privacy #LocationData #USA #KashPatel

Docs Expose CBP’s Use Of Ad Data To Track People’s Movements

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/12/docs-expose-cbps-use-of-ad-data-to-track-peoples-movements/

#Petition from #ConsumerReports: Ban the sale of our #LocationData!

https://consumer.quorum.us/campaign/157521/

#activism #privacy #DigitalPrivacy #security #InformationSecurity #InfoSec #Cybersec #Cybersecurity

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116165955832004026

> Die US-Grenzschutzbehörde …hat systematisch #Standortdaten aus Alltags-Apps genutzt, die aus dem Real-Time-Bidding-System (#RTB) der Online-#Werbeindustrie stammen. Das belegt ein internes Dokument …, das die Investigativ-Plattform @404mediaco … veröffentlicht hat.

👉4.2.2026, @heiseonline dazu: https://www.heise.de/news/US-Grenzschutz-nutzte-Online-Werbedaten-zur-Handy-Ueberwachung-11199454.html

#Datenschutz #TeamDatenschutz #Privacy #CandyCrush #Tinder #Grindr #Tumblr #MyFitnessPal #DiDay #Webloc #LocationData