US DEFENSE DEPARTMENT UNLAWFULLY PURCHASED BILLIONS OF PERSONAL POSITION DATA
Defense Intelligence Agency analysts in recent years have bought databases of location data on US smartphones without first obtaining legitimate warrants from the judiciary, thus carrying out illegitimate spying on American citizens. The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is part of the Department of Defense and is tasked with informing military and civilian policy makers about the activities and intentions of foreign governments and non-state actors.
The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union has decided to intervene on the matter and similarly several politicians to the problem of the privacy of US citizens. The data was purchased wholesale from various APPs that collect them for commercial purposes. However, if it is already disturbing that your data is being sold to the kebab shop in the area, which can then pound you with advertising, it is even more so when this data is sold to the secret services.
Senator Ron Wyden asked the DIA to clarify his interpretation of Carpenter against the United States, a 2018 United States Supreme Court decision prohibiting law enforcement from soliciting personal location information from a mobile phone company without have first obtained a search warrant from a judge.
"The DIA does not interpret Carpenter's decision to request a judicial warrant that endorses the purchase or use of commercially available data for intelligence purposes," replied the agency, which, in order to acquire the data, would find a loophole by buying them not directly, but through a broker. A legal trick to circumvent the law for the protection of privacy.
Additionally, Wyden asked if DIA agents differentiated between phone location data obtained in the US and overseas. “DIA's data provider does not provide separate streams of location data in the US and overseas,” the agency explained, “and therefore DIA processes location data as it arrives to identify the location data points of states. United, which segregates into a separate database ".
"DIA personnel may query this US location data database only if authorized by the DIA Chief of Staff and the DIA General Council Office," he added. "Permission to query the DIA database of location data for commercially acquired US devices has been granted five times in the past two and a half years when DIA began purchasing this data source."
Last September it was revealed that the U.S. military was buying device location data from apps, including a Muslim prayer app used by tens of millions of people around the world, and using it for counter-terrorism purposes.
As reported by The Hill on Friday, Wyden plans to introduce legislation, dubbed "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale," that would prohibit government agencies from purchasing personal information from data brokers, thereby providing greater protection for American citizens. But remove the geolocation right?
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