{"id":18407,"date":"2023-06-19T20:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T00:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=18407"},"modified":"2023-06-21T20:36:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T00:36:16","slug":"n-y-post-feds-are-buying-your-life-with-your-tax-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/19\/n-y-post-feds-are-buying-your-life-with-your-tax-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"N.Y. Post: Feds are Buying Your Life with Your Tax Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE:<\/h3>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-18407-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-New-York-Post-e-Edition.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-New-York-Post-e-Edition.mp3\">https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/The-New-York-Post-e-Edition.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<h3>New York Post, June 20, 2023<\/h3>\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/19\/feds-are-buying-your-life-with-your-tax-dollars\/\">The feds are buying mountains of your personal data and one day <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18415\" src=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23-452x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"452\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23-452x800.jpg 452w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23-579x1024.jpg 579w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23-85x150.jpg 85w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/jpb-nypost-surveil-state-6-20-23.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 452px) 100vw, 452px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/19\/feds-are-buying-your-life-with-your-tax-dollars\/\">could use it against you<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>by James Bovard<\/p>\n<p><strong>Federal agencies are secretly accumulating mountains of data that could be used for \u201cblackmail, stalking, harassment and public shaming\u201d of American citizens. That allegation doesn\u2019t come from a pink-haired civil-liberties fanatic<\/strong> \u2014 it\u2019s in a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/19\/americans-personal-data-available-to-foreign-adversaries\/\">new report for the nation\u2019s chief spymaster, Avril Haines.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fourth Amendment recognized Americans\u2019 right \u201cto be secure . . . against unreasonable searches and seizures.\u201d <strong>But Washington is mothballing that lofty standard for a new motto: \u201cThose who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The latest federal surveillance tsunami is being spurred by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/06\/13\/intel-agencies-buying-sensitive-and-intimate-data-on-us-citizens\/\">purchases of commercially available information <\/a>(CAI) that private companies vacuum up from data from smartphones, computers and other digital devices and trackers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCAI Increases the Power of the Government,\u201d warns the Office of the Director of National Intelligence report. \u201cThe government would never have been permitted to compel billions of people to carry location tracking devices on their persons at all times, to log and track most of their social interactions, or to keep flawless records of all their reading habits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet that\u2019s what happens nowadays.<\/p>\n<p>Federal agencies have always been permitted to use publicly available information for investigations. But the contrast between that data and the new data is the difference between \u201ca ride on horseback\u201d and \u201ca flight to the moon,\u201d as a federal court declared in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court ruled in 2018 that police need a search warrant to seize tracking data on a person\u2019s car. But government agencies can simply purchase the same information from data brokers. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) cautions, \u201cIf the government can buy its way around Fourth Amendment due-process, there will be few meaningful limits on government surveillance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/04\/cdc-bought-cell-phone-data-to-track-lockdowns-vaccination-docs\/\">Centers for Disease Control and Prevention bought private data<\/a> from tens of millions of cellphones to check obedience to COVID lockdown and curfew decrees. A California county paid for information revealing how many people attended each church during COVID lockdowns. The Internal Revenue Service purchased location and tracking data from a private firm that sells data harvested from dating apps.<\/p>\n<p>The feds are snaring more personal information on Americans than ever before. Thanks to CAI, the feds can learn about any website you visited, any tweet you liked, anywhere you drove and almost anything you purchased with a credit card.<\/p>\n<p>What could possibly go wrong?<\/p>\n<p>Plenty. The National Security Agency exploits \u201cpersonal vulnerabilities\u201d by tracking its allegedly radical targets \u201cviewing sexually explicit material online.\u201d If G-men start asking questions, you can\u2019t get away with repeating 500 times that you were \u201cjust doing research for my sociology class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong> The latest controversy showcases how private citizens have become legal underlings<\/strong>. Do the feds have the right to know exactly when and where you went for coffee this morning but you have no right to see the FBI report on President Joe Biden and an alleged $5 million bribe?\u00a0 Are the feds entitled to know if you ever attend any political protest while the FBI refuses to reveal even the names of <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/21\/the-fbi-just-got-caught-in-yet-more-massive-outrageous-fisa-abuses\/\">278,000 Americans<\/a> it recently illegally surveilled?<\/p>\n<p>The CAI rascality is only the latest federal surveillance scheme making mincemeat of Americans\u2019 privacy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customs agents are entitled to seize and copy all the cellphone and laptop data from American citizens returning home from abroad. Any information vacuumed up is added to a massive database that the feds retain for 15 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Department of Homeland Security browbeat money-transfer companies to surrender records of any transfer of more than $500 between any US state and 22 foreign nations, rifling a database of more than150 million cash transfers.<\/li>\n<li>The Drug Enforcement Administration launched an illegal scheme to treat anyone who purchased a money-counting machine like a drug dealer. That secret program blew up after a 2019 inspector general report.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How many other zany federal surveillance programs have we not heard about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The answer is a secret.<\/p>\n<p>The ODNI report admits no one knows how many federal agencies are buying CAI on American citizens, but congressional Republicans are going on the warpath.<\/p>\n<div class=\"single__content entry-content m-bottom \">\n<p>The House Energy and Commerce Committee is \u201cinvestigating data brokers\u2019 . . . ability to sell our most sensitive information to anyone including to government agencies. This is the type of behavior we would expect from the Chinese Communist Party \u2014 not the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Permitting the feds to cannibalize personal data means that \u201cwe have the government controlling us instead of us controlling the government,\u201d as Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) warned in 2014.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unfortunately, there are plenty of Washingtonians who act like they have a right to seize, steal or buy any and all personal data on Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>James Bovard is the author of 10 books and a member of the USA Today Board of Contributors.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LISTEN TO THIS ARTICLE: New York Post, June 20, 2023 The feds are buying mountains of your personal data and one day could use it against you by James Bovard Federal agencies are secretly accumulating mountains of data that could be used for \u201cblackmail, stalking, harassment and public shaming\u201d of American citizens. 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