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Story summary
- The FBI resumed purchasing Americans' data and location histories for federal investigations, confirmed by Director Kash Patel at a Senate hearing.
- This is the first acknowledgment since 2023 that the agency actively buys such data from brokers.
- Senator Ron Wyden criticized the practice as an "outrageous end-run around the Fourth Amendment."
- Lawmakers introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act to require warrants for federal agencies to acquire personal information.
