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Home | World | Us Defense Intelligence Agency Buying Citizens Location Data

US Defense Intelligence Agency buying citizens’ location data

By IANS
Published: Updated On - 01:50 PM, Sat - 23 January 21
According to a New York Times report, in a memo sent to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the intelligence agency said it buys location data from brokers "and that the data isn't separated by whether a person lives in the US or outside of it".

San Francisco: The US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has admitted to buying citizens’ location data collected from their smartphones.

According to a New York Times report, in a memo sent to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), the intelligence agency said it buys location data from brokers “and that the data isn’t separated by whether a person lives in the US or outside of it”.

In the memo, the DIA said that its “personnel can only query the US location database when “authorised through a specific process.”

It requires approval from senior leadership, the Office of Oversight and Compliance, and the Office of General Counsel.

In the past two and a half years, the DIA has been given permission to look through US device location data five times.

“DIA currently provides funding to another agency that purchases

commercially available geolocation metadata aggregated from smartphones,” the memo read.

“The data DIA receives is global in scope and is not identified as U.S. location data location data by the vendor at the time it is provisioned to DIA processes the location data as it arrives to identifyU.S. location data points, that it segregates in a separate database”.

“Permission to query the U.S. device location data has been granted five times in the past two-and-a-half years for authorised purposes,” the memo said.

In a statement to The Verge, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said that “the government cannot simply buy our private data in order to bypass bedrock constitutional protections.”

The ACLU called on Congress to “end this lawless practice and require the government to get a warrant for our location data, regardless of its source.”

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