Emile Ayoub
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Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center | Lakers enthusiast | LA raised, NY based, 🇱🇧 heritage | UCI Law ‘16, UCLA ‘12 | views my own
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Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.
September 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Big takeaway here is a mass erosion of barriers between governmental and corporate data collection/surveillance--and the idea that the one-off surveillance of walking past a single CCTV camera is over, the consolidation of ALL data means true mass surveillance from 100 redundant pieces of data.
Legislators must step up to rein in this harmful industry. Congress can pass the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. And states can pass a similar bill and a strong consumer privacy law w/o broad law enforcement exemptions. 8/ shorturl.at/Sd0og
Closing the Data Broker Loophole
Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Legislators must step up to rein in this harmful industry. Congress can pass the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. And states can pass a similar bill and a strong consumer privacy law w/o broad law enforcement exemptions. 8/ shorturl.at/Sd0og
The FTC cracked down on data brokers’ abusive practices, prohibiting their sales of certain location data. The CFPB proposed rulemaking that would've restricted data brokers from sharing certain sensitive personal and financial info, but it recently withdrew the proposal. 7/ shorturl.at/7eS9g
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
The FTC cracked down on data brokers’ abusive practices, prohibiting their sales of certain location data. The CFPB proposed rulemaking that would've restricted data brokers from sharing certain sensitive personal and financial info, but it recently withdrew the proposal. 7/ shorturl.at/7eS9g
Some states have passed laws to address this harmful industry, incld strong consumer privacy in CA and MD and laws allowing users to opt-out of collection and delete data. MT recently became the 1st state to prohibit its govt agencies from buying certain info from data brokers. 6/ shorturl.at/Xb2m9
Montana Becomes First State to Close the Law Enforcement Data Broker Loophole
Montana has done something that many states and the United States Congress have debated but failed to do: it has just enacted the first attempt to close the dreaded, invasive, unconstitutional, but ea...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Some states have passed laws to address this harmful industry, incld strong consumer privacy in CA and MD and laws allowing users to opt-out of collection and delete data. MT recently became the 1st state to prohibit its govt agencies from buying certain info from data brokers. 6/ shorturl.at/Xb2m9
That helps data brokers and agencies evade accountability, frustrating efforts to increase oversight into the govt’s purchase and use of such info. Even intel agencies are often unsure what data they buy and how they use it, as a govt report acknowledged. 5/ shorturl.at/uwI1X
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
That helps data brokers and agencies evade accountability, frustrating efforts to increase oversight into the govt’s purchase and use of such info. Even intel agencies are often unsure what data they buy and how they use it, as a govt report acknowledged. 5/ shorturl.at/uwI1X
Data brokers often hide behind confidentiality provisions in govt contracts that require agencies not to reveal where brokered information came from. ARC had a similar provision in its government contracts. 4/ www.404media.co/airlines-don...
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
A contract obtained by 404 Media shows that an airline-owned data broker forbids the feds from revealing it sold them detailed passenger data.
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Data brokers often hide behind confidentiality provisions in govt contracts that require agencies not to reveal where brokered information came from. ARC had a similar provision in its government contracts. 4/ www.404media.co/airlines-don...
Govt agencies have turned to data brokers like ARC to purchase data rather than obtain it through legal process like warrants, court orders, or subpoenas. They are exploiting legal loopholes to bypass statutory and constitutional privacy protections. 3/ shorturl.at/Sd0og
Closing the Data Broker Loophole
Congress must pass legislation that prohibits government agencies from buying its way around the Fourth Amendment and other legal privacy protections.
shorturl.at
September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Govt agencies have turned to data brokers like ARC to purchase data rather than obtain it through legal process like warrants, court orders, or subpoenas. They are exploiting legal loopholes to bypass statutory and constitutional privacy protections. 3/ shorturl.at/Sd0og
Data brokers like ARC thrive in the US, thanks to outdated and limited privacy laws and a stalled 4th Am. doctrine. They traffic in data that can be used to track people crossing state lines seeking abortions, reveal people’s ideologies, and monitor places of worship. 2/ shorturl.at/MoQEx
Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics
Privacy advocates gained access to a powerful tool bought by U.S. law enforcement agencies that can track smartphone locations around the world. Abortion clinics, places of worship, and individual peo...
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September 16, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Data brokers like ARC thrive in the US, thanks to outdated and limited privacy laws and a stalled 4th Am. doctrine. They traffic in data that can be used to track people crossing state lines seeking abortions, reveal people’s ideologies, and monitor places of worship. 2/ shorturl.at/MoQEx