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      Groups Applaud as US House Panel Advances Bill to Curb Warrantless Collection of Americans' Data

      "The data marketplace where advertisers go to sell ads for a local store should not be the same place the government goes to evade warrant requirements," the Electronic Frontier Foundation asserted.

      Brett Wilkins
      Jul 19, 2023

      Digital rights defenders on Wednesday hailed a U.S. congressional committee's approval of legislation that would protect Americans' data from being purchased by intelligence or law enforcement agencies without a warrant.

      Reps. Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), Ken Buck (R-Colo.), Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) on Tuesday reintroduced the Fourth Amendment Is Not for Sale Act (FANFSA) in a bid to close a loophole in federal law exploited by spy agencies and police to collect U.S. citizens' phone and other data without obtaining warrants.

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      'Shocking': FBI Director Admits Agency Purchased Geolocation Data of Americans

      "Congress must fix this before considering any reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act this year," said one advocate.

      Julia Conley
      Mar 08, 2023

      Privacy advocates on Wednesday said testimony from FBI Director Christopher Wray at a U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing offers the latest evidence that Congress must take action to keep the government from performing mass surveillance on people across the United States, as Wray admitted the bureau has purchased cellphone geolocation data from companies.

      Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Wray at a hearing about national security threats whether the FBI purchases "U.S. phone geolocation information," showing the location of users.

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      If Obama Wanted an 'Open Debate' on NSA Spying, Why Thwart One for so Long?

      The president asks us to trust him on government surveillance, yet his administration constantly denigrates critics as unpatriotic

      Jennifer Hoelzer
      Aug 14, 2013

      Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post "Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" - much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa - have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners. I think it's worth pointing out that General Michael Hayden's actual rhetoric is even more inflammatory than Cushing's. Not only did the former NSA director call us "nihilists, anarchists, activists, Lulzsec, Anonymous, twentysomethings who haven't talked to the opposite sex in five or six years", he equates transparency groups like the ACLU with al-Qaida.

      I appreciated this post for two reasons.

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