This shouldn’t be about making it so 3 letter agencies can’t buy data. It should be about making it illegal to collect and sell that data in the first place.
This. They’re definitely barking up the wrong tree here.
The problem isn’t that government agencies can simply buy it from brokers. The problem is that companies and data brokers can collect all this data in the first place.
I feel like this is the forest-through-the-trees comment. The data shouldn’t exist and that should be the direction of legislation. If it’s available for purchase then I think it would be weird that any schmuck could buy it but not the government. If the data collection is stopped, no one gets it and everyone wins.
Also, if something is technically possible but illegal for the CIA/FBI/etc to do, it just means they have to try to hide the fact they’re still doing it
They still need data to be collected on everyone. They’re just going to start buying the data of all the “bad” people which will be a third of the population.
This shouldn’t be about making it so 3 letter agencies can’t buy data. It should be about making it illegal to collect and sell that data in the first place.
This. They’re definitely barking up the wrong tree here. The problem isn’t that government agencies can simply buy it from brokers. The problem is that companies and data brokers can collect all this data in the first place.
I feel like this is the forest-through-the-trees comment. The data shouldn’t exist and that should be the direction of legislation. If it’s available for purchase then I think it would be weird that any schmuck could buy it but not the government. If the data collection is stopped, no one gets it and everyone wins.
Also, if something is technically possible but illegal for the CIA/FBI/etc to do, it just means they have to try to hide the fact they’re still doing it
Agreed. If I can’t buy it, why shouldn’t the FBI be allowed? But if the data doesn’t exist then neither of us can buy it and the problem goes away.
The law will say feds can’t buy data*
*unless they want to for “reasons”
They still need data to be collected on everyone. They’re just going to start buying the data of all the “bad” people which will be a third of the population.