Two dozen groups urge Congress to pass transparency rules around DOD purchases of private data.
“I just says, look, you’re buying all this data — what are you buying? It doesn’t even ask why.”
In a bicameral letter to the chairs and ranking members of the two Armed Services Committees, each of whom holds significant sway over the final budget’s terms, the rights groups tendered their support for the amendment, saying the coalition’s singular goal is to “provide Congress and the public with only the information necessary to access the profound privacy consequences of the Department of Defense buying its way around the Fourth Amendment.”Gizmodo sent inquiries to the members of the Senate Armed Service Committee last month asking whether the amendment had their support.
or does it insist on any further auditing. “It’s benign,” Davidson added. “But it’s a first step towards transparency. People should know what the Department of Defense is buying.” “This amendment is critical to enabling congressional, judicial, and public oversight because this unconstitutional checkbook surveillance currently occurs without any Congressional or judicial authorization or oversight whatsoever,” Sean Vitka, senior policy counsel at Demand Progress, told Gizmodo. “This rapidly expanding practice represents an enormous and irreversible threat to constituents’ right to privacy.
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