Sunday, January 24, 2021

US Defense Intelligence Agency Buys Your Smartphone Location Data From Brokers

Editor's note: The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) can now pinpoint you for a drone strike on their newly declared domestic war on terrorism. 
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Source: Great Game India

January 24, 2021

US Defense Intelligence Agency has just confirmed that the US government does indeed buy your location data collected from your smartphones by brokers.
In a memo sent to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and obtained by The New York Times, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) admitted that it buys location data from brokers — and that the data isn't separated by whether a person lives in the US or outside of it. 

Data brokers are companies that, as the name implies, collect and sell people's information. The companies collect people's location information (and much more) by paying app makers and websites for it.

Once the broker has the information, they can aggregate it and sell it to whoever's willing to pay for it — including the US government.


Sen. Wyden, who requested the memo be made, has a bill called "The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale," which aims to "ban the government from buying information that would otherwise require a court order or a warrant." 

Usually we would put in a line or two about the relevance of the development to the Indian context.

But since we do not even have Data Protection Law everything is up for sale.

Please go to Great Game India to read more. 
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