{"id":197185,"date":"2026-03-18T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:51:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:51:05","slug":"the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data\/","title":{"rendered":"The FBI confirms it&#8217;s buying Americans&#8217; location data"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data-230835196.html\">The FBI confirms it&#8217;s buying Americans&#8217; location data<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data-230835196.html\">https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data-230835196.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-18 19:08:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.engadget.com\">www.engadget.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that the FBI has purchased commercially available information that can track individuals&#8217; movement and location.<\/li>\n<li>Patel stated that these purchases are consistent with laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act and have yielded valuable intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The need for law enforcement to obtain a warrant for location data from cell providers is still mandated by Carpenter v United States ruling from 2018.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Ron Wyden criticized the practice of buying location data without a warrant as a dangerous end-run around the Fourth Amendment.<\/li>\n<li>Wyden and several other lawmakers are advocating for an overhaul of how and when the government can access citizens&#8217; personal information.<\/li>\n<li>Patel has previously faced controversies over the questionable use of government resources.<\/li>\n<li>Other instances of inappropriate surveillance include the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s illegal tracking of immigration raid protestors and the Pentagon&#8217;s attempt to use Anthropic&#8217;s products for mass surveillance of Americans.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The FBI confirms it&#8217;s buying Americans&#8217; location data https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/big-tech\/the-fbi-confirms-its-buying-americans-location-data-230835196.html Publish Date: 2026-03-18 19:08:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":197186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/LiPnAjSa2Krgx.dyZe9g5Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTEyMDA7aD04MDA-\/https:\/\/d29szjachogqwa.cloudfront.net\/images\/2026-03\/dc48071e-72d4-4f68-9538-0f32e27a2e4f","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":197187,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197185\/revisions\/197187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}