Unclassified memo: Defense Intelligence Agency analysts have used commercial databases of location data from smartphone apps to track Americans without warrants
The disclosure comes amid growing legislative scrutiny of how the government uses commercially available location records.
New: The military arm of the intelligence community has searched for information about Americans' movements without a warrant in a commercially available database of smartphone app locational data, per DIA memo for @RonWyden . https://www.nytimes.com/...
The #IC's enthusiasm for end-running the 4th Amendment is matched, thankfully, by @charlie_savage's calling them out for it. https://www.nytimes.com/...
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency shouldn't be spying on Americans, without a warrant, by paying data brokers for location info generated by our phone apps. https://www.nytimes.com/...
I want to study this legal question further & I'm open to arguments on either side, but I do frankly find it absurd that Govt can't use commercially available data in the same way I, as private citizen, can do. I can think of possible abuses but also concerned abt limitations. ht…
The DIA “buys commercially available databases containing location data from smartphone apps and searches it for Americans' past movements without a warrant.” https://www.nytimes.com/...