“The FBI uses all tools to do our mission. We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution.”
Kash Patel told senators the FBI is buying location data from data brokers again. They stopped in 2023 after getting caught. Now they’re back at it and bragging about it in a Senate hearing. The Fourth Amendment says you need a warrant to track people. The FBI says you just need a credit card. The data comes from phone apps. Your weather app is a government surveillance tool.