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And so a group of privacy-minded lawmakers—including Sens. Rand Paul (R–Ky.), Ron Wyden (D–Ore.), Patrick Leahy (D–Vt.), and Mike Lee (R–Utah)—has introduced The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. The bill prohibits federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies from attempting to bypass court order requirements by purchasing private citizen tech data from brokers or any third-party company that may have legitimately or illegitimately obtained the information.
Sometimes I really dig Rand Paul. And it has bipartisan support. Not banned totally BUT federal law enforcement needs a court order.
In the past two years, we've seen the feds make this end run several times. In February 2020, the Wall Street Journal revealed the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement purchased a commercial database full of cellphone tracking data (the very type of information the Supreme Court ruled was private) for immigration enforcement purposes. At the time, a Customs and Border Protection spokesperson said that while the database included tracking information, this was somehow different from the Supreme Court case because it didn't involve the use of cell towers to aid in the tracking, an argument that deliberately ignores the part of the decision that says that we have an expectation of privacy for records of our physical movements, regardless of the means used to access those records.Lawmakers Look To Stop the Feds From Secretly Buying Your Private Data
A bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced a bill to stop federal law enforcement from sidestepping citizens' privacy rights by…
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Sometimes I really dig Rand Paul. And it has bipartisan support. Not banned totally BUT federal law enforcement needs a court order.