FBI director Kash Patel told lawmakers that the agency is actively purchasing commercially available location data, which can track Americans without needing a warrant.
This is old news. Old old news. The only news is whether he admitted it or not.
Just last year, the feds set up a one stop shop to buy ALL the data broker info, and distribute it to agencies, as before they were buying it piecemeal themselves and agencies had bought many of the same tranches of data. multiple times independently.
But this was going on all through Biden, to this current guy’s first term, to idk when.
This is old news. Old old news. The only news is whether he admitted it or not.
Just last year, the feds set up a one stop shop to buy ALL the data broker info, and distribute it to agencies, as before they were buying it piecemeal themselves and agencies had bought many of the same tranches of data. multiple times independently.
But this was going on all through Biden, to this current guy’s first term, to idk when.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/