Specialists are calling on the governmnent to stop buddying up with big tech companies like Google, Facebook and Apple and instead work on a privacy law to keep its citizens safe from cyber attacks…
to spy on its own citizens, privacy experts warn foreign intelligence agencies are snapping up the same information and have the potential to build detailed profiles of every American consumer.
The kind of data which is for sale includes geo-specific locations, spending habits and online search behavior of US citizens and is being harvested by shadowy companies based in foreign countries, largely through cellphone apps, with little regulation or control. The 48-page document further described how information which would typically require a search warrant, such as a cell phone location, as well as other personal data is sold on the open market and has even been bought by the federal government such as the FBI and Department of Homeland Security.
The “commercially available information” covers that which can be purchased online through a number of public records sites as well as huge troves of data harvested from people’s cellphones then sold in batches to advertizers, marketers and, presumably, foreign spies. “Commercial entities are collecting far too much information about Americans and they’re collecting far too much information that is highly sensitive,” he told The Post. “And, they’re exposing that to a whole bunch of other actors, including not just the US Intelligence Services, but Foreign Intelligence Services.”
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