Closing the Data Broker Loophole
www.brennancenter.org
Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections.
  • assembly@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    9 months ago

    I feel like this is the forest-through-the-trees comment. The data shouldn’t exist and that should be the direction of legislation. If it’s available for purchase then I think it would be weird that any schmuck could buy it but not the government. If the data collection is stopped, no one gets it and everyone wins.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      Also, if something is technically possible but illegal for the CIA/FBI/etc to do, it just means they have to try to hide the fact they’re still doing it