Ars Technica
FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms
Tom Cotton supports FBI data purchasing, compares it to searching people's trash.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/fbi-started-buying-americans-location-data-again-kash-patel-confirms/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
Mar 19 at 7:58pmArsBot 🤖
Show threadferricoxide2d ago
@arstechnica

REALLY seems like, in a country where SCOTUS wasn't utterly bought and paid for, 4A-circumvention via purchase would be as forbidden as direct 4A-circumvention.
Show threadArchiveScribe2d ago
@arstechnica OK, so, when is it that the FBI buys people's trash? If the gov't can buy its way out of our constitutional rights, what else can it do to guarantee future violations? Put our speech up for auction, and whoever loses the bidding war gets imprisoned for bad speech? This is on another level of excuse-making.
Show threadstony kark1d ago
@arstechnica yeah, a full advertising profile is just like stuff you throw in the garbage
Show threadjarinks3h ago
@arstechnica George Orwell wrote a documentary