Congress banned federal agencies from collecting bulk data on Americans in 2015. So some of them just started buying it from data brokers instead. 😳 ICE signed a contract with a company whose tool can track mobile phone movements or locate phones that have visited specific locations. No warrant. Taxpayer money. Done. One privacy attorney put it plainly: it's like the police paying your landlord $100 for a spare key and walking through your house without a warrant.
Now add AI to that picture. Anthropic's CEO Dario Amodei warned that records the government can purchase can be used by AI to assemble "a comprehensive picture of any person's life automatically and at a massive scale." That's not hypothetical. That's now. And the window to close this through FISA reauthorization closes April 20!
The business angle nobody's talking about: the same data brokers selling to ICE are selling data your employees, customers, and executives generate every day. You have no control over what happens to it after it leaves your app or browser. That should be in your risk conversation, not just your privacy policy.
🏛️ This is bipartisan; Republicans and Democrats are co-sponsoring the fix
📅 April 20 is the deadline
https://www.npr.org/2026/03/25/nx-s1-5752369/ice-surveillance-data-brokers-congress-anthropic
#Privacy #AI #Leadership #Cybersecurity #security #cloud #infosec #surveillance
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