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Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Why is the FBI buying people's location data and how is it using the information?

The FBI resumes purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, circumventing warrant requirements and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago
Privacy professionals

Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans

The FBI has resumed purchasing Americans' location data from commercial sources without warrants, circumventing Fourth Amendment protections through private data brokers.
fromThe Washington Times
3 days ago
Privacy professionals

Patel says FBI is now buying Americans' internet location data

The FBI purchases commercially available location data from internet advertising brokers without warrants, claiming compliance with constitutional and privacy laws.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

Why is the FBI buying people's location data and how is it using the information?

The FBI resumes purchasing commercially available location data on Americans, circumventing warrant requirements and Fourth Amendment protections against warrantless surveillance.
Privacy professionals
fromArs Technica
2 days ago

FBI started buying Americans' location data again, Kash Patel confirms

The FBI has restarted purchasing Americans' location data without warrants, with Director Kash Patel defending the practice as valuable for national security despite previous claims of stopping it.
Privacy professionals
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

Kash Patel admits under oath FBI is buying location data on Americans

The FBI has resumed purchasing Americans' location data from commercial sources without warrants, circumventing Fourth Amendment protections through private data brokers.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Washington Times
3 days ago

Patel says FBI is now buying Americans' internet location data

The FBI purchases commercially available location data from internet advertising brokers without warrants, claiming compliance with constitutional and privacy laws.
Privacy professionals
fromCNET
2 days ago

FBI Confirms Buying Data That Could Be Used to Track Americans

FBI Director Kash Patel admitted under oath that the agency purchases commercially available data to track Americans, circumventing Fourth Amendment protections without warrants.
Privacy professionals
fromTheregister
2 days ago

Patel dodges question about FBI buying location data

FBI Director Kash Patel admitted the agency purchases commercially available information from data brokers, potentially including location data, which Senator Wyden argues violates the Fourth Amendment without warrant requirements.
Privacy professionals
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

The FBI is buying Americans' location data

The FBI purchases commercially available location data from private brokers to track people's movements without warrants, circumventing Fourth Amendment protections that apply to cell phone provider data.
Environment
fromTruthout
1 week ago

Environmental Activists Say the FBI May Be Investigating Them

FBI counterterror investigators are scrutinizing nonviolent climate activist groups like Extinction Rebellion NYC, raising concerns about federal law enforcement targeting constitutionally protected protest and free speech activities.
US news
fromFortune
1 month ago

Walmart consulted with Nancy Guthrie investigators over exclusive backpack | Fortune

Investigators are working with Walmart to trace a suspect's Ozark Trail Hiker Pack linked to the disappearance of Savannah Guthrie's mother.
US news
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Family cleared as suspects in Nancy Guthrie disappearance: sheriff

Nancy Guthrie, 84, is missing and investigators treat the incident as an abduction; the Guthrie family has been cleared as suspects and ransom demands in Bitcoin were made.
US news
fromBoston.com
1 month ago

Nancy Guthrie kidnapping investigators work with Walmart after identifying suspect's backpack

Investigators are working with Walmart after identifying a 25-liter Ozark Trail Hiker Pack worn by a masked suspect in Nancy Guthrie's disappearance.
US news
fromwww.aljazeera.com
1 month ago

US makes arrest in connection with disappearance of TV host's mother

Authorities arrested a suspect in the February 1 kidnapping of 84-year-old Nancy Guthrie after the FBI released surveillance video showing a masked armed individual.
fromwww.dw.com
1 month ago

Guthrie abduction: Police detain person for questioning

A person has been taken into custody in the southwestern US state of Arizona as part of the investigation into the apparent abduction of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of NBC journalist and "Today" show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, officials said on Tuesday. According to the Pima County Sheriff's Department, the person was taken into custody during a traffic stop near the city of Tucson, where Nancy Guthrie lived.
US news
US politics
fromEmptywheel
1 month ago

Surprise! DOJ IG's 1,403 Day Old Section 215 Investigation Had a Baby!

A DOJ OIG investigation into FBI use of Section 215, NSLs, and pen registers has been ongoing since 2010 and remains unresolved after 1,403 days.
fromwww.cbc.ca
3 months ago

The FBI spotted Ryan Wedding in 2024. Why wasn't he arrested? | CBC News

The FBI had managed to get eyes on Ryan James Wedding, a Canadian they suspected of running a violent cocaine-smuggling operation across South and North America. The episode at the coffee shop described by U.S. prosecutors in court documents summarizing their case against Wedding amounts to the only sighting that authorities have confirmed publicly, since Wedding first fled criminal charges in 2015.
Toronto
#signal
fromwww.amny.com
3 months ago
New York City

Deeply troubling': Mamdani promises review of NYPD's role in immigration court observer surveillance | amNewYork

fromwww.amny.com
3 months ago
New York City

Deeply troubling': Mamdani promises review of NYPD's role in immigration court observer surveillance | amNewYork

fromwww.amny.com
3 months ago

Lander, pols return to 26 Federal Plaza after arrest, rail against FBI and ICE signal chat spies | amNewYork

The FBI has infiltrated a signal chat used by court watchers simply to know what's on the docket in the cases in this building, to identify where ICE agents are, and while engaging in constitutionally protected non-violent legal activity, the FBI in a throwback to the days of J Edgar Hoover, is infiltrating and surveilling nonviolent, legal, constitutionally protected political activity, and I have to tell you: I am outraged by it,
New York City
fromThe American Conservative
4 months ago

The Federal Government Is Still Spying on You

Surveillance powers granted to the deep state allow the FBI and others to spy on Americans as a method of control. Those worried about a slip into authoritarianism must look past whomever is in the White House at any one time and see what new technology and old laws has allowed us to become. The latest example comes from an FBI document obtained by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-IA),
Right-wing politics
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months ago

You're Losing Credibility': JD Vance Brawls With George Stephanopoulos Over Tom Homan Bribery Scandal

Vice President JD Vance defended Border Czar Tom Homan, denied bribery, and criticized aggressive questioning over a reported $50,000 FBI-recorded cash payment.
US politics
fromAxios
5 months ago

FBI shuts down corruption group, fires agents after they monitored GOP lawmakers

An FBI task force reportedly monitored communications of nine Republican lawmakers; CR-15 was dismantled amid claims federal law enforcement was weaponized.
US politics
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months ago

Jack Smith Tracked Republican Senators' Communications, Claims FBI

Former Special Counsel Jack Smith allegedly tracked private phone communications of eight Republican senators and one representative following the 2020 certification events.
#martin-luther-king-jr
US politics
fromABC7 Los Angeles
8 months ago

Sinaloa drug cartel used hacker to track FBI official, then killed potential informants, audit says

A Mexican drug cartel utilized a hacker to gather sensitive information on an FBI official, leading to the targeting of informants in Mexico.
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