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Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/06\/13\/us-intelligence-report-purchase-americans-personal-data\/<\/a><\/br>
\nUS intelligence confirms it buys Americans\u2019 personal data<\/br>
\n2023-06-13 22:05:07<\/br><\/p>\n

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A newly declassified<\/span> government report confirms for the first time that U.S. intelligence and spy agencies purchase vast amounts of commercially available information on Americans, including data from connected vehicles, web browsing data, and smartphones.<\/p>\n

By the U.S. government\u2019s own admission, the data it purchases \u201cclearly provides intelligence value,\u201d but also \u201craises significant issues related to privacy and civil liberties.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) declassified and released the January 2022-dated report on Friday<\/a>, following a request by Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) to disclose how the intelligence community uses commercially available data. This kind of data is generated from internet-connected devices and made available by data brokers for purchase, such as phone apps and vehicles that collect granular location data<\/a> and web browsing data that tracks users as they browse the internet.<\/p>\n

The declassified report is the U.S. government\u2019s first public disclosure revealing the risks associated with commercially available data of Americans that can be readily purchased by anyone, including adversaries and hostile nations. The United States does not have<\/a> a privacy or data protection law governing the sharing or selling of Americans\u2019 private information.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a way that far fewer Americans seem to understand, and even fewer of them can avoid, [commercially available information] includes information on nearly everyone that is of a type and level of sensitivity that historically could have been obtained\u201d by other intelligence gathering capabilities, such as search warrants, wiretaps and surveillance, the report says.<\/p>\n

In a statement following the report\u2019s publication, Wyden said: \u201cThis review shows the government\u2019s existing policies have failed to provide essential safeguards for Americans\u2019 privacy, or oversight of how agencies buy and use personal data.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAccording to this report, the ODNI does not even know which federal intelligence agencies are buying Americans\u2019 personal data,\u201d Wyden added.<\/p>\n

The report corroborates a stream of media reports that found U.S. government agencies were buying huge datasets on Americans. The Internal Revenue Service bought access<\/a> to a huge database storing the location data of millions of Americans\u2019 phones to try to catch tax cheats, while similar phone location data was used by Homeland Security for immigration enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Government agencies must typically secure a court-approved warrant to obtain Americans\u2019 private data directly from a phone or tech company, such as private messages. But the ODNI\u2019s report states that in the cases where Americans\u2019 information \u2014 like location data \u2014 is openly for sale to the general public, U.S. intelligence agencies can purchase it. (Though, this theory has yet to be scrutinized in federal court.)<\/p>\n

Although this data is generally sold in bulk \u2014 often millions of data points at a time \u2014 the ODNI\u2019s report warns that commercially available data can be easily deanonymized to identify individuals, including Americans. Location data, for example, can be used to infer where people live and work, based on where their phones and vehicles are at certain times of the day.<\/p>\n

Commercially available information can also reveal \u201cthe detailed movements and associations of individuals and groups, revealing political, religious, travel, and speech activities,\u201d the report says, such as being used to \u201cidentify every person who attended a protest or rally based on their smartphone location or ad-tracking records.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the wrong hands, sensitive insights gained through [commercially available information] could facilitate blackmail, stalking, harassment, and public shaming,\u201d the report said. The report noted that in 2021, commercially available location data collected from a gay dating app was used<\/a> to out a Catholic priest, who later resigned. The report also referenced the collection and sale<\/a> of location data from a Muslim prayer app to the U.S. military.<\/p>\n

Wyden called for Congress to pass legislation to \u201cput guardrails around government purchases, to rein in private companies that collect and sell this data, and keep Americans\u2019 personal information out of the hands of our adversaries.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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