These firms could track whether you've visited your therapist's office or your ex's house. And without regulation, they're a threat to democracy. (From 2021)
from criminal investigations to deportations. In doing so, data brokers circumvent limits on companies directly handing data to law enforcement . The federal government agencies using the data may then also circumvent a variety of legal restrictions in place around searches and seizures as well as federal controls which aren’t applied to “open source” or “commercially obtained” data, even if the data is on US individuals.
In this context, real-time location data presents a real opportunity for abuse, particularly where law enforcement is conducting operations against individuals or groups from historically marginalized communities. In August 2020, four members of Congressa letter to the firm Mobilewalla for just this reason, after the company advertised that it identified characteristics of Black Lives Matter protesters using their phone location data.
Private companies buy such data all the time, and it’s likely all too tempting to hoover information to discriminately target ads: tracking an unwitting American as they leave a police station, an abortion clinic, or the office of a cash lender, for example. Individuals also use this kind of information to discriminate against others.
On top of all this, foreign intelligence or security organizations could buy up data broker data, with virtually no restrictions, to conduct intelligence operations or identify the real-time locations of diplomats, government, or military personnel. All of this harms national security, as companies aggregate and sell highly sensitive data on US individuals with no public visibility into what kind of vetting, if any, is done of potential buyers.
The only way to mitigate these companies’ threat to democracy—through their extraordinary and unchecked surveillance power—is regulation. Congress must integrate the data brokerage ecosystem into a strong federal privacy law, restricting the constant buying and selling of Americans’ sensitive data.
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