The Pentagon Tried to Hide That It Bought Americans’ Data Without a Warrant::US spy agencies purchased Americans’ phone location data and internet metadata without a warrant but only admitted it after a US senator blocked the appointment of a new NSA director.
Anyone can buy this data. It’s just a regular product. What would a warrant have to do with anything.
Warrants are important checks on an otherwise unchecked behemoth that could easily make most people disappear in one way or another.
As much as I hate it, I was under the impression that US government agencies routinely purchased user data from brokers because it was a workaround for warrant requirements to acquire the data themselves.
Yeah, the real problem is that the data was made available for sale.