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Privacy advocates on Wednesday said Congress must stop the government from performing mass surveillance on Americans, after FBI Director Christopher Wray told the U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee the bureau bought cellphone geolocation data from companies.
By Julia Conley
Privacy advocates on Wednesday said testimony from Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray at a U.S. Senate Select Intelligence Committee hearing offers the latest evidence that Congress must take action to keep the government from performing mass surveillance on people across the U.S., as Wray admitted the bureau has purchased cellphone geolocation data from companies.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Wray at a hearing about national security threats whether the FBI purchases “U.S. phone geolocation information,” showing the location of users.
Wray said the bureau does not currently make such purchases, but acknowledged for the first time that it “previously, as in the past, purchased some such information for a specific national security pilot project,” drawing on data “derived from internet advertising.”
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