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Government Purchase of Commercial Location Data: Warrantless Surveillance Via Data Broker Loophole
Beginning in 2020, public reporting documented that multiple U.S. government agencies—including the FBI, DHS, and other federal offices—have purchased location data from commercial data brokers withou…
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GAO Reports on Federal Agency Purchases of Commercial Data Broker Data (Post-2010)
This dossier investigates the extent of Government Accountability Office (GAO) reporting since 2010 specifically on federal agency procurement of data from commercial data brokers. While the GAO has r…