Mastodawn

Your government is buying your location data — no warrant needed. Federal agencies pay data brokers millions for bulk cell phone location info that would otherwise require a court order. Congress is pushing back, but the practice continues. This is the 4th Amendment loophole hiding in plain sight.
Link:https://www.wgbh.org/news/national/2026-03-31/your-data-is-everywhere-the-government-is-buying-it-without-a-warrant
#Surveillance #Privacy #DataBrokers #4thAmendment

Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

Data brokers buy up huge amounts of information from cell phones and browsers to sell for targeted advertising. But the government, including ICE, also buys the data.

GBH

Sudo 1d ago

Ep 20 of #ImpracticalPrivacy: The Digital Autopsy 🧟‍♂️

We're talking about the Identity Buffet and Zombie Accounts

The scary part? Even if a company goes bankrupt, your data doesn't die.

In this episode, we cover:
🔹 How to map your digital shadow
🔹 The "Poison the Well" strategy for stubborn deletions
🔹 Why your primary email is a single point of failure

Listen at ImpracticalPrivacy.com or anywhere you get your podcasts.

#Privacy #CyberSecurity #DataBrokers #SelfHosted #DigitalRights #OpSec

John Gilda 2d ago

Data brokers will sell their mothers. Just greedy MFers. One of the biggest travesties of this century is how 'Mericans traded their privacy for socials and free web sites. Right to privacy? Not so much... #Palantir #ThomsonReuters #Databrokers @[email protected]

John Gilda 3d ago

And firms like Thompson Reuters and Lexis Nexis and other data brokers sell deep profiles of your every move to the G’mint. #databrokers #techlordlings #survellienceeconomy

#cryptohagen Mar 26

🇺🇸 har sat myndigheders brug af og køb af kommercielle #databroker data på dagsordenen: Under en høring i Senatet i sidste uge sagde FBI-direktør Kash Patel, at FBI køber data, der kan bruges til at overvåge

Det kommende 🇩🇰 Folketing skal i både forsvars- og rets udvalg behandle ændringer i love om efterretnings-tjenesternes køb og brug af bla. lokations-data fra #databrokers

Anbefalet læsning: IT-pol høringssvar https://itpol.dk/hoeringssvar/fe-loven-2025-oktober og https://itpol.dk/hoeringssvar/pet-loven-2025

Høringssvar vedr. ændring af lov om Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste (FE), lov om beskyttelse af whistleblowere og lov om Udvalget vedrørende Efterretningstjenesterne (Styrkelse af tilsynet med Forsvarets Efterretningstjeneste samt bistand fra teleudbyder | IT-Politisk Forening

Udkast til lovforslaget i høring kan ses her. Der er tale om en opdateret udgave af det lovforslag, som var i høring i februar 2025. I forhold til den første version af lovforslaget er der tilføjet en pligt for teleudbydere om at give FE adgang til deres infrastruktur med henblik på indhentning. Høringssvaret Dette høringssvar er kun tilgængeligt som PDF (link).

Vladyslav Mar 22

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

matiu bidule Mar 20

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

#cryptohagen Mar 20

🇺🇸 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

FBI is buying data that can be used to track people, Patel says

This is the first confirmation that the FBI has resumed actively buying people's data for investigations.

Politico

Ralf Bendrath Mar 20

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123951-000-A/gefaehrliche-apps-im-netz-der-datenhaendler/ Great investigation of @netzpolitik_feed and @br_data on #databrokers
This should really trigger some blast from the authorities.
Edit: Now without Youtube, thanks to @leanderlindahl for flagging it.

Gefährliche Apps - Im Netz der Datenhändler - Die ganze Doku | ARTE

Apps sammeln detaillierte Standortdaten. Die Informationen landen in einem weltweiten Netzwerk aus Datenhändlern und Werbefirmen. Sie verraten Wohnorte und Arbeitsplätze – bis hin zu Bordellbesuchen oder Klinikaufenthalten. Die Dokumentation zeigt, wie leicht Nutzer ins Visier von Stalkern, Kriminellen oder Geheimdiensten geraten können.

ARTE

derPUPE Mar 20

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

Bernie vs. Claude

YouTube