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"Doing business online doesn’t amount to giving the government permission to track your every movement or rifle through the most personal details of your life," Senator Ron Wyden told Motherboard in a statement. "There’s no reason information scavenged by data brokers should be treated differently than the same data held by your phone company or email provider. This bill closes that legal loophole and ensures that the government can’t use its credit card to end-run the Fourth Amendment."Do you work at any of the companies named in this piece? Do you work in the same industries? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, OTR chat on jfcox@jabber.ccc.de, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.
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"In general, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) use of Clearview AI’s facial recognition technology is primarily used by Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). HSI’s use of facial recognition and the policies and procedures that have been implemented are for HSI special agents in furtherance of criminal investigations," an ICE spokesperson told Motherboard in a statement.Motherboard previously reported on how law enforcement agencies have used contractors to purchase hacked website data. The new legislation may prohibit those sorts of sales too, because the data in many cases would have been originally sourced from a criminal hack.According to the office of Senator Wyden, a wide range of civil rights and technology groups endorsed the legislation, including Access Now, Accountable Tech, American Civil Liberties Union, Americans for Prosperity, Center for Democracy and Technology, Color of Change, Demand Progress, Due Process Institute, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, Freedom of the Press Foundation, FreedomWorks, Free Press Action, Interactive Advertising Bureau, MediaJustice, Mozilla, NAACP, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Network Advertising Initiative, Open Technology Institute at New America, Open The Government, PEN America, Project on Government Oversight, Public Citizen, Public Knowledge, Project for Privacy and Surveillance Accountability, Restore the Fourth, Mijente, Just Futures Law, and Brennan Center for Justice.Update: This piece has been updated to include a statement from Hoan Ton-That, CEO of Clearview AI.Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast CYBER, here."A critically important bill."