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• @jmichaelwaller J Michael Waller on x

  Another baseless conspiracy theory that was based all along. FBI just admitted it bought data to track innocent citizens. https://www.wired.com/...

• @demandprogress @demandprogress on x

  “The public needs to know who gave the go-ahead for this purchase, why, and what other agencies have done or are trying to do the same,” - @SeanVitka for Demand Progress https://twitter.com/...

• @kimcrayton1 @kimcrayton1 on x

  TECH IS NOT NEUTRAL NOR APOLITICAL‼️ https://twitter.com/...

• @kyleseraphin Kyle Seraphin on x

  “I understand that we previously—as in the past—purchased some such information for a specific national security pilot project. But that's not been active for some time.” -Chris Wray 🤷🏽‍♂️ ⁦cc: ⁦@DineshDSouza⁩ https://www.wired.com/...

• @thomdunn @thomdunn on x

  as unsurprising as this is, it was *wild* that the FBI can legally break the law just as long as they use capitalism to do it https://twitter.com/...

• @toomuchme Danny Rivero on x

  When everything is a marketplace and your personal data is the product being sold, the FBI can just buy your data to get around asking for a warrant. https://twitter.com/...

• @aimiessfriend @aimiessfriend on x

  stuff like “we need to ban TikTok because it's from scary scary China” is all a ruse so you don't notice how much domestic spying is happening (or notice a lot of other things) in the US https://twitter.com/...

• @iethics @iethics on x

  “US lawmakers have long failed in their attempts to pass a comprehensive #privacy #law, and most of the bills put forth have purposely avoided the #government's own acquisition of US residents' personal #data”: https://www.wired.com/... #ethics #business h/t @snackfight

• @tinybaby @tinybaby on x

  it's very funny in a certain way that not only are they going around the laws we passed to get data on us, they're giving more of our money to the companies we're already paying to do so https://twitter.com/...

• @dellcam Dell Cameron on x

  NEW: FBI just admitted to buying cellphone location data that US companies told users was for personalizing online ads — data FBI would've otherwise needed a warrant to obtain Wray says it was purchased for a classified pilot program “some time” ago https://www.wired.com/...

• @snackfight Michael Calore on x

  “The Department of Homeland Security is reported to have purchased the geolocations of millions of Americans from private marketing firms. The data were derived from a range of deceivingly benign sources, such as mobile games and weather apps” by @dellcam https://www.wired.com/..…