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Senators @RonWyden and @RandPaul, and in House @RepJerryNadler and @RepZoeLofgren, plus many cosponsors, introduce anticipated bill that would ban the US government from buying app data from brokers on things like people's locations without a warrant. /1 wyden.senate.gov/download/the-fourth-amendment-is-not-for-sale-act-of-2021-bill-text
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Here's a story from January about the Defense Intelligence Agency buying commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps & searching them for Americans’ past movements without a warrant. /2 nytimes.com/2021/01/22/us/politics/dia-surveillance-data.html
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This bill seems destined to become a proposed amendment to the larger bill on FISA reform and reviving Section 215 of the Patriot Act, if and when Congress gets around to picking that issue up again after it collapsed amid Trumpy chaos last year. /end nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/politics/mcconnell-fisa-bill.html
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P.S. The bill would probably also block the CIA from buying calling metadata from phone companies, as I reported it was doing in 2013 amid the spike in chatter about surveillance related things due to the fallout from the Edward Snowden leaks. nytimes.com/2013/11/07/us/cia-is-said-to-pay-att-for-call-data.html