The Biden administration took a recent step to protect the personal data of Americans from foreign government abuse, but not from our own.
recently took a step to protect personal data from government abuse. But it was only a baby step. And it left out the one government that is the most immediate threat to Americans’ privacy — our own.announced an executive order on Feb.
The easiest way for the government to get your private data is simply to buy it. The FBI, IRS, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Homeland Security, and many other agencies have signed contracts for years to purchase the data of millions of Americans scraped from the apps on our cellphones. The data include our most sensitive and personal information, tracking our every move by foot, by car, and online — and all in virtually real time.
So Biden’s executive order, which will struggle even to deal with “countries of concern,” does nothing to curb these federal “agencies of concern,” some of which can deploy a SWAT team to your front door at dawn. It is one thing to worry about what China might do with the data of a federal employee or military officer during a conflict. What our own government can do to usis the immediate concern and arguably the bigger danger.
government, whether another Anglophone member of the “Five Eyes” surveillance club or our own intelligence services? The advertising technology ecosystem creates a portrait of the private lives of millions of law-abiding Americans that is more intimate than a diary. Using that ecosystem, federal agencies can violate every shred of privacy without ever seeking a warrant, as required by the Constitution.
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