‘Unprecedented Mass Surveillance’: Mike Lee and Cynthia Lummis Warn Of Privacy Threat Tied To FISA Renewal

>The growing power of AI is driving new worries among both Republicans and Democrats about government agencies’ warrantless purchases of Americans’ sensitive data.

Commercially available information obtained from data brokers for criminal investigations, military operations and national security circumvents constitutional restrictions on information agencies can gather from Americans, Politico reported.

Although agencies’ surveillance capabilities were once constrained by the labor and expertise needed to analyze vast amounts of data, AI is enabling officials to easily sift through millions of data points, Politico reported. That shift has prompted a bipartisan group of lawmakers to push for warrant requirements before agencies can purchase such data.