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The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant (www.wired.com)

The article details efforts by the Pentagon to hide its warrantless purchases of Americans’ data, the legislative efforts to ban such purchases, and the divide in Congress over surveillance warrant requirements. It contextualizes the broader debates around domestic surveillance, legal and ethical concerns around data privacy, and the political battles over surveillance legislation.
Main Points
- Secrecy around data purchasesUnited States officials have tried to keep the details of warrantless data purchases hidden, as these practices allow agencies to obtain location data from US phones without a warrant, effectively bypassing legal processes.
- Purchases of American's dataThe Department of Defense and other intelligence agencies have been purchasing location data and possibly internet metadata from companies, raising ethical and legal concerns.
- Congressional division on surveillanceLegislation is in progress to ban such practices, highlighting the divide in Congress between those who support surveillance warrants and those who do not.
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