https://preview.redd.it/bw9k87snvsrg1.png?width=2816&format=png&auto=webp&s=f99f02862a4f0feaee8a59a80a9bde71ff94c2d2 283 data brokers are registered in Vermont. Most states don’t even require registration. NPR reported this week that ICE has been buying geolocation and financial data from commercial brokers to track people without warrants. The FBI told the Senate it does the same thing. No subpoena needed. The agencies just buy it on the open market. The pipeline works like this: payment apps and financial platforms collect your transaction data. Brokers buy or license it in bulk. Government agencies purchase it retail. The Fourth Amendment doesn’t apply because nobody was technically ‘searched.’ The data was already for sale. Congress has held hearings. The CFPB drafted rules. Vermont passed a registration law. Nothing comprehensive has changed at the federal level. This is why some of us think private payment infrastructure matters. Not because we have something to hide, but because the alternative is a market where your spending patterns, location history, and financial behavior are inventory on a shelf. The buyers range from ad networks to federal law enforcement, and you never opted in. The technical solutions exist. The political will doesn’t. Yet. submitted by /u/thejohnnycrypto
Originally posted by u/thejohnnycrypto on r/ArtificialInteligence
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