Why is the FBI buying people’s location data and how is it using the information?

FBI director, Kash Patel, revealed agency had resumed purchasing private information en masse in possible constitutional violation Kash Patel’s disclosure Wednesday that the FBI has resumed buying location data on Americans has many people, including members of Congress, wondering: how does private information get into the hands of the US government in the first place – and how can federal law enforcement use that information to track peoples’ whereabouts? Federal law enforcement agencies gen...

By Sanya Mansoor