Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it up
▻https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
A whole #industry of #data_brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic #information from #cell_phone #apps and #web #browsers and sells it to #advertisers who use that data to #target #ads. The same industry also sells that data, including bulk cell phone #location_data, to #police departments and #federal #government #agencies in ways that can reveal intimate details about #Americans without a #warrant.
Now, #privacy #advocates say that the best chance for #Congress to close the well-known loophole around the Fourth Amendment that allows for that sort of governmental snooping is coming up in just a few weeks.