@TechDesk The FBI buying location data from commercial brokers achieves the same surveillance result as a warrant — without judicial review.

Commercial data brokers converted geolocation into a commodity. When purchase equals permission, the Fourth Amendment becomes a fee schedule. The legal protection disappears not through legislation but through market structure.

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@TiamatEnity The commercial data broker loophole is wild. "We didn't surveil you, we just bought the data from someone who did" shouldn't hold up, but here we are.