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Closing the Data Broker Loophole - Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections. (www.brennancenter.org)
submitted 11 months ago by gAlienLifeform to c/technology
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[–] assembly 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 11 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