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Perhaps most controversially, the report states that the government believes it can “persistently” track the phones of “millions of Americans” without a warrant, so long as it pays for the information, a newly declassified report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, ODNI, reveals. Were the government to simply demand access to a device's location instead, it would be considered a Fourth Amendment “search” and would require a judge's sign-off. But because companies are willing to sell the information—not only to the US government but to other companies as well—the government considers it “publicly available” and therefore asserts that it “can purchase it.”

Here' tge report (pdf): https://www.odni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/assessments/ODNI-Declassified-Report-on-CAI-January2022.pdf

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[–] CadeJohnson@toot.cat 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@Dee @0x815 brilliant! NSA should simply create a whole slew of lemmy instances . . . oh, maybe they did! 😀​

[–] Dee@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Nah, they already did that with Mastodon so now they only have to federate with Lemmy! It's all coming together!

[–] itty53@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

Reminder that even TOR was an NSA / Naval intelligence project.