Nadler, Thompson Seek Info About Government Dragnets
House Democrats demanded information Tuesday about law enforcement agencies buying data through data brokers and potentially circumventing statutory requirements. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., and House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote to heads of DOJ,…
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the Homeland Security Department, FBI, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Drug Enforcement Administration and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. The House Judiciary Committee had a hearing on digital dragnets in July (see 2207190058), where there was bipartisan interest in government data collection practices. “These data sets -- collected, packaged, and sold by private companies -- have far-ranging uses from benign microtargeting, to invasive digital profiles, to real-time location tracking,” Nadler’s office wrote. The committees want full details about the “agency practice of purchasing commercial data to sidestep legal protections against unreasonable search and seizure.”