US Government Uses Advertising Data to Track Citizens Without Warrants

CBP and ICE have spent millions purchasing location data from advertising brokers — enabling government surveillance without warrants or probable cause. This bypasses Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure.

Advertising companies collect vast location data from smartphones and apps. Data brokers aggregate this information and sell it to the highest bidder, including government agencies. Users are often unaware their data is being collected, analyzed, and sold.

Immigrant communities face particular risk. ICE uses location data to track and detain undocumented individuals. Activists and protesters are similarly vulnerable to monitoring.

What's needed:

Laws requiring warrants for location data access

Regulation of data brokers

Privacy-by-design technology: encrypted location services, privacy-preserving advertising

The normalization of constant tracking threatens fundamental rights to freedom of movement and association.
https://newsgroup.site/us-government-advertising-data-surveillance-tracking-2026/
#Privacy #Surveillance #FourthAmendment #DataBrokers #CBP #ICE #CivilLiberties

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116259474226178881

As said the great Bill Hicks :

« By the way if anyone here is in marketing or advertising...»

(Bill Hicks on advertising VOSTFR : https://youtu.be/hJAx64ulht8 )

#Marketing
#Adertising
#Capitalism
#Tech
#TechnoFascism
#Data
#DataBrokers
#NothingToHideTheySay

🇺🇸 FBI Kash Patel indrømmede under en høring i Senatet i denne uge, at hans agentur køber følsomme data om amerikanere på det private marked

Dataene bruges angiveligt til at spore folks bevægelser og historik over, hvor de har opholdt sig

Amerikansk lovgivning forhindrer rets-håndhævende myndigheder i at indhente data fra tech-platforme uden en rets-kendelse, men ikke i at købe dem fra #databrokers
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-track-people-patel-00834080

breathtaking: #BernieSanders spoke to #Anthropic’s AI agent #Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data, #DataBrokers and how that information is being used to violate our #privacy rights.

What than the AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us all up.

https://youtu.be/h3AtWdeu_G0

spread this video - please

US Lawmakers Move to Kill the FBI’s Warrantless Wiretap Access

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/us-lawmakers-move-to-kill-the-fbis-warrantless-wiretap-access/

The Register: Chat at your own risk! Data brokers are selling deeply personal bot transcripts. “Your latest chat transcript could be bought and sold. Data brokers are selling access to sensitive personal data captured during chatbot conversations, despite claims that the data is anonymized and obtained with consent.”

Well, this slipped past while we were watching the war crimes. The House advanced #KOSA and some other "protect the kids, punish the gay" legislation on party line votes.

None of this legislation, just like the laws passed in CA and CO, are about protecting children. These are pedophile protectors, they don't care about your kids unless they get to peer into their pants. This is about enriching their sponsors and Total Information Control.

This is dangerous to liberty, life and freedom.

https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5770101-house-panel-advances-slate-of-kids-online-safety-bills-along-party-lines/

#lgbtq #onlinesafety #totalitarianism #authoritarianism #palantir #databrokers #FreedomForSale #USpol #Congress

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp

Here's the short and skinny of it. Those advertisements that are targeted at you, by Facebook, google & others.
Those very same online ad systems have been used by the government to warrantlessly track peoples' locations, as confirmed by new reports.

#Privacy #EFF #DigitalPrivacy #DataBrokers #Surveillance #CivilLiberties #SurveillanceCapitalism #PrivacyMatters