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It’s absurd that American authorities can purchase personal data – that they’re not allowed to gather themselves without a warrant – directly from data brokers. This violates the Fourth Amendment, and it’s time to close the data broker loophole.

Today, the Surveillance Accountability Act was introduced. It requires warrants based on probable cause for all government surveillance and data access.

You can read more about it here: https://www.surveillanceaccountability.com/

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The Surveillance Accountability Act
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Show threadChantaruApr 23
@mullvadnet the most infuriating part is that if you try to opt out your data from the broker, they ask you to give them private data to prove you are who you are. As if anyone would suffer a prejudice from being opted out against their will.
Show threadMichael LynchApr 23
@mullvadnet I like this, but this seems like the legislative equivalent of vaporware. Do they even have a bill draft? Why is the only call to action to just give money rather than contacting our representatives to support the bill?
Show threadda_kinkApr 24

@michael @mullvadnet well, in the about page: On April 23, 2026, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act, which would require government searches to be conducted with a warrant based on probable cause, in accordance with the Fourth Amendment. The Ludlow Institute's founder, Naomi Brockwell, helped draft the bill in coordination with Rep. Massie's office, ensuring it is grounded in both constitutional principles and the realities of modern surveillance technology.

Those were a couple of names I wasn't expecting on a bill like this. So it could just be a money extraction scheme.

Show threadDreyApr 23
@mullvadnet - Right On 100%. Start arresting Data Brokers.
Show threadToken Sane PersonApr 23
@mullvadnet It's even more absurd that if this bill passes, the US government will be the only organisation in the world prohibited from buying this data. Big business, organised crime, hostile governments; just set up a front company and have at it!
Show threadNu ModularApr 23

@mullvadnet Probable cause left to a disintegrating judicial system?..

May as well move you and yours to #EmergingEconomies in #DevelopingCountries, before wasting good money, going after collapsing Capitalism.

#DemocraticSocialist #Revolution

Show threadtkissingApr 23

@mullvadnet I can already see the Supreme Court case in which data brokers claim to be a protected class who's 1A rights are violated if they can't sell to the government unrestricted. There will be an Amicus from the DOJ, the FBI and a bunch of sheriffs or whatever. One "liberal" judge will write a stern letter how this is the end of the Republic, the others will abstain and the Republican majority will side with the corporations and the fascists as usual.

edit: typo

Show threadCohoApr 23
@mullvadnet
How about making it illegal for data brokers to collect our data in the first place. Pull the problem out by the roots
Show threadslow learner deep feeler🦋🌿❤️‍🔥Apr 23

@mullvadnet

https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/representatives-massie-boebert-introduce-surveillance-accountability-act

REPRESENTATIVES MASSIE, BOEBERT INTRODUCE SURVEILLANCE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT TO PROTECT AMERICANS FROM WARRANTLESS GOVERNMENT SPYING

Washington, D.C.-- Today, Rep. Lauren Boebert (CO-04) and Rep. Thomas Massie (KY-04) introduced the Surveillance Accountability Act, landmark legislation that would require federal and local government agencies to obtain a warrant supported by probable cause before conducting surveillance on American citizens, in accordance with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Representative Lauren Boebert
Show threadRixerApr 23
@mullvadnet keyword is introduced. There have been 100+ introductions of “progressive agendas”, that get nowhere or are put in the back of the line, spanning for months if not years, to eventually not get addressed at all or dismissed.