QUESTION
Do law enforcement agencies purchase individuals' location data from data brokers?
2:25:55
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Albert Fox Cahn confirms that law enforcement agencies buy location data from data brokers like Thomson Reuters, which sells personal information of nearly all Americans to numerous agencies, including immigration officials.
- Data brokers are a major tool used for deportations.
- Data brokers' data is also exploited by cybercriminals and hackers.
- Cahn argues there is lack of protection for sensitive personal data sold on the market.
- He calls for structural safeguards against commercialization of sensitive data and abusive use of biometric data collection.
Jennifer Gutiérrez
2:25:55
Do law enforcement agencies buy location data?
Albert Fox Cahn
2:25:59
Oh, yeah.
2:25:59
Are you
Jennifer Gutiérrez
2:26:00
expanded to them?
Albert Fox Cahn
2:26:01
So we we at surveillance technology oversight project, we're currently suing Thomson Reuters, which sells the personal information of nearly every single American to dozens, maybe hundreds of different law enforcement agents, every agencies in looting, you know, immigration officials.
2:26:22
Data brokers are fueling deportations.
2:26:25
They are one of the major tools used by those officials, but it's also being used by cybercriminals.
2:26:33
Used by hackers.
2:26:34
It's used by to by any number of people to break the law as well as the police departments that so often abuse it.
2:26:44
So it it to me, this it's kind of like we've left some of the most valuable assets we have as a society, just completely unprotected on the market.
2:26:56
For whoever wants to take them.
