The FBI confirms it's buying Americans' location data
FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the agency purchases commercially available location data to track individuals, citing its constitutionality under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Senator Ron Wyden criticized this practice as an "outrageous end run" around the Fourth Amendment, especially with the use of AI for mass surveillance. The article also mentions past controversies involving Patel and other government agencies' data practices.
- Entities
- Person: Kash Patel
- Person: Ron Wyden
- Topic: Location Data
- Company: Department of Homeland Security
- Company: FBI
- Company: Pentagon
- Company: Anthropic
- Topic: Privacy
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