Asked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined.
  • quick_snail@feddit.nl
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    2 days ago

    Asked under oath last week whether he would commit to not buying Americans’ location data without a warrant, the Director of the FBI declined.

    Didn’t the supreme court just rule that as illegal?

    • ReluctantMuskrat@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Here’s the hole: [The Supreme Court’s ruling on] Carpenter limits what the government can compel. It says nothing clear about what the government can buy. So agencies just buy it.

      They can’t compell a provider to provide data without a warrant but they can just buy it on the free market.