Your data is everywhere. The government is buying it without a warrant

https://text.npr.org/nx-s1-5752369

A whole industry of data brokers buys up vast quantities of electronic information from cell phone apps and web browsers and sells it to advertisers who use that data to target ads. The same industry also sells that data, including bulk cell phone location data, to police departments and federal government agencies in ways that can reveal intimate details about Americans without a warrant.\
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Now, privacy advocates say that the best chance for Congress to close the well-known loophole around the Fourth Amendment that allows for that sort of governmental snooping is coming up in just a few weeks.\
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That's when Congress is expected to take up reauthorization of what is known as Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on April 20.

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The #SAVE Act 2.0 has been fast tracked for a #vote early next week. An even broader reaching effort towards voter suppression is the newly introduced MEGA Act. Both of these new bills are part of the same effort by members of #Congress to #disenfranchise millions of eligible #voters from participating in upcoming #elections.

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