{"id":30981,"date":"2021-01-22T17:10:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-23T01:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30981"},"modified":"2021-01-22T17:10:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-23T01:10:01","slug":"intelligence-agency-gathers-us-smartphone-location-data-without-warrants-memo-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=30981","title":{"rendered":"Intelligence agency gathers US smartphone location data without warrants, memo says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have purchased databases of U.S. smartphone location data in recent years without a warrant, agency officials wrote in a memo to a top Senate Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>DIA analysts have searched American location data five times in the past two-and-a-half years, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/eqdpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrdpzzzy_gcrcrrgygdctccgrlmmr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/eqdpjvdlqrrfcvcrftbqqfppqdfwrdrkkhqlvzwrdpzzzy_gcrcrrgygdctccgrlmmr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611444491408000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG5cR2yMumoexhAKXGaA2PgekBQCA\">document released<\/a>\u00a0Friday by Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/njkjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqwjrrrt_gcrcrrgygdctccgrlmmr.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/njkjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqwjrrrt_gcrcrrgygdctccgrlmmr.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611444491408000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFNK4SgcfTuFhiNfqe-_4xRcXt9vw\">Ron Wyden<\/a>, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.<\/p>\n<p>The Oregon Democrat had asked the agency whether it was interpreting the 2018 Supreme Court decision in Carpenter v. United States to mean that obtaining data from a third-party broker rather than a phone company does not require a warrant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDIA does not construe the Carpenter decision to require a judicial warrant endorsing purchase or use of commercially-available data for intelligence purposes,\u201d the agency responded in the memo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysts at the Defense Intelligence Agency&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30982,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30981\/revisions\/30982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}