~this week in security~Lawmakers seek to close loophole that allows feds to buy people's location data without a warrant
Federal agencies have been purchasing large datasets to track people's whereabouts from data brokers without asking a court for approval.
T2R@index We shouldn’t just close this loophole. We should destroy it and all of the data brokers along with it. Put them all out of business and fine any company $1M per person’s worth of data that they sell and then impose whatever federal monitoring we can on the company to ensure compliance. Rinse and repeat.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@index any idea if the proposed language of the bill, or existing legislation, would prohibit them from paying a third party (e.g. a PI, or a contractor) to obtain bulk information from a data broker, extract information on a set of individuals, and pass it on to LEAs, all without a warrant, essentially sidestepping the restriction transitively?
Zack Whittaker@gsuberland @index there are a few provisions targeting surveillance at large, including a requirement for a warrant for buying commercially available information. https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-lee-davidson-and-lofgren-introduce-bill-to-reform-fisa-section-702-protect-americans-constitutional-rights-and-plug-data-broker-surveillance-loophole
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