The Loophole That Lets Police Do Warrantless Spying

I’m glad Congress is working on legislation to curtail, if not stop, the practice by federal law enforcement agents and agencies.

As an Australian any feds can log into your social media, email accounts, ect if they "SUSPECT" a crime has been made without a warrant. So it's already game over in my country.

Plot twist - even the paywalled services still collect and profit from your data.

The problem is not necessarily that the police can get access to this information. The problem is that anyone who would seek to do me harm in some way can get access to this information. The police, scammers, stalkers etc.

You know, being subscribed to you hurts sometimes. Just to do simple tasks nowadays seems like selling your soul to whatever corp needs it most Its overwhelming

Here's the thing, if the military industrial complex said, "We want to put devices in every home, in every hand on the planet, and use the data retrieved to build a sophisticated surveillance grid that can both monitor and predict both individual and collective actions".. do you think the public would ever have accepted that? The NSA harvests data on UK citizens, GCHQ on American citizens, and does swapsies to get around privacy laws. They have been doing this for years. If you live in one of the 'eyes' network countries, assume every piece of internet connected equipment you own is being data harvested without your consent. They have been building profiles on everyone, for a long time. Throw in CBDC, AI, biometrics, and it doesn't take a genius to see where this is going.

I've long said that data about you should be owned by you and protected from distribution by law. My web browser history or social posts or Google Drive contents are my property. Technically the Constitution already recognizes this.

Damn, the feds are up everyones ass everytime

Man, that’s depressing. Hope this legislation goes through.

Protecting your data is gone and has been for sometime now, I quit trying a long time ago, now I just do as many things to put me on a list as I can. Knowing I’m wasting their time looking at me brings me joy. My social credit score, when that eventually comes, is gonna be at rock bottom. And it’s not gonna change aside from an actual revolution against government and corporations on a worldwide scale.

It's crazy just how fast the dystopias described in so many 20th century sci-fi novels have come to life.

The problem isn't that the government can buy your data from these sites: it's that anyone at all can do so. It should be illegal to buy or sell PII unless it's your own.

Civil Asset Forfeiture is against the 4th amendment but is practiced regularly by all levels of government.

If they need to search your home a cop will get a fake phone number and call in an anonymous report of a suspicious activity and there you go, your home is being searched. That's why we have anonymous lines and no other reason.

Your data is valuable so make sure you watch what you leak and remember you have rights! Even if others wish to violate them.

There should be a law that prevents companies from taking your data without your consent, and at the same time prevents them for denying you acces to their platforms if you refuse to give your data...

Privacy is the most important right which is being more harshly and quickly stripped than any other.

Thank you for covering the Not For Sale Act. Will definitely reach out to my representative about it

There are entire companies based around this loophole. The NSA uses them all the time.

Well I live in Portugal and currently my Phone has a wire since a few months. 6 months ago I was in the city and randomly met a few old buddies. Few minutes after meeting them there are as a shooting and I got caught in the middle and arrested by the Police. I got released the same day because I wasn’t doing anything, I have nothing to do with this kind of stuff and I sure had no gun neither with me or at home. Few days after the incident, my phone started lagging when having phone calls. Sometimes im in a call and I receive a new call from the person I am currently speaking. I checked with my lawyer and there is no existing record of a wire tap being requested for my phone. So they just do it illegally. The justice system is a total failure spending money and time taping someone like me when the real criminals are out there. But thats just what it is