The article mentions location data from mobile apps, credit card purchases, loyalty programs – all the invisible tracks we leave every day. What scares me isn’t just government access. It’s the normalization of surveillance capitalism first. Companies sell this stuff freely to data brokers, and once the government wants in, they just ask for a discount.
This isn’t about terrorism or national security in the headlines. It’s about who owns your movements and choices. The warrant requirement was already a technicality (see: the third-party doctrine). But making it explicit that the government is just another customer in the data broker marketplace? That’s the real story.
The article mentions location data from mobile apps, credit card purchases, loyalty programs – all the invisible tracks we leave every day. What scares me isn’t just government access. It’s the normalization of surveillance capitalism first. Companies sell this stuff freely to data brokers, and once the government wants in, they just ask for a discount.
This isn’t about terrorism or national security in the headlines. It’s about who owns your movements and choices. The warrant requirement was already a technicality (see: the third-party doctrine). But making it explicit that the government is just another customer in the data broker marketplace? That’s the real story.