Report: Intelligence Agencies Buying ‘Sensitive and Intimate’ Data of American Citizens

American Greatness ^ | 14 Jun, 2023 | Eric Lendrum

[MtnClimber]

Why are these intelligence agencies interested in US citizens?

[LIConFem]

Was that a rhetorical question?

[scrabblehack]

This is impossible. Critics of 2000 Mules said so.

[dragonblustar]

The great communist reset. Klaus Schwab controls the world.

[dljordan]

They know no one will stop or even question them.

[Tench_Coxe]

"Critics of 2000 Mules said so."

The same critics who are silent or cheering when intelligence agencies do it, or deride questions about such activity as a "conspiracy theory" or "Russian disinformation".

[Georgia Girl 2]

Gun owners, Christians, you know, the bad people.

[Ransomed]

Don’t we just trade all the calls we capture from friendly nation’s citizens in exchange for all the US calls that they capture? Then they all can claim they don’t actually spy on their own citizens.

Freegards

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

Stasi. Checka. Gestapo. KGB. Democrats and RINOs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

[I want the USA back]

This should not come as a surprise to readers of FR.

[M Kehoe]

Bttt

5.56mm

[nopardons]

BTTT

[unread]

Maybe that’s why the government (the rats) is giving away free cell phones to Obama’s army as they come across the border.. So they can keep track of where they are and making sure they are selling their quota of narcotics for the party..

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

And Commizon hands over your data without a warrant.

[Noumenon]

Klaus Schwab in his creepy Bond villian get-up.

[cgbg]

Snowden explained all this years ago.

We collect massive Intel on foreign citizens.

“Allied” foreign intelligence services create massive Intel on US citizens.

Both groups can testify under oath “no domestic spying”.

Then with one keystroke they swap data.

Easy peasy.

[Alberta's Child]

The report details a loophole that has allowed intelligence agencies, including the FBI, DHS, and NSA, to simply buy large troves of cell phone data for tracking purposes without needing a warrant. If the information was paid for, the report notes, then it is technically considered "publicly available."

Much as we may not like this, the law is clear on this point. In fact, Justice Clarence Thomas (of all people) ruled against a criminal defendant in a Supreme Court case a few years ago who claimed that the police obtained his mobile phone data "illegally" in this manner.

They key point to remember here is that your mobile phone service provider owns your data. I know this because it's written into your service contract with that company, and they include this provision because they want to make extra money selling your data to various types of businesses (and even law enforcement) that are willing to pay to know your habits.

And if you don't own your mobile phone data, then (as Clarence Thomas rightly concluded) they aren't subject to your constitutional protections under the Fourth Amendment.

[cgbg]

Good post.

The data is then made available to all sorts of folks, which almost certainly include “front companies” of different intelligence agencies.

[Carriage Hill]

Nothing new here; they’ve been doing it for a decade or more.