Proposed bill to ban US government from buying location data [pdf]
There's a whole cottage industry of companies selling US citizen data around credit, location, etc. (safegraph, ...), including say military personnel, government officials, political activists, bankers, and other high-trust individuals. Government people fight hard to allow corporate money laundering and stock market nonsense to stay hidden, but it's a free-for-all for citizen data.<p>It's insane to me that it's legal, and my current guess is it'll take ~20 years for the current 60+ year olds in power who don't know how to use computers to age out.