NEW: FBI director Kash Patel just confirmed that the agency is buying people's information from data brokers without a warrant.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/18/fbi-buying-data-track-people-patel-00834080

@alng great time to sign up for Optery
@alng How the ever-loving fuck does that not constitute unreasonable search?

@LockEx @alng We need GDPR esque protections so private companies won't even _have_ this data. Like, government shouldn't be allowed to do this.

But they shouldn't even be able to.