Admission came during questioning at Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has started buying location data on Americans, Kash Patel, FBI director, said under oath at the Senate intelligence committee worldwide threats hearing on Wednesday.
Patel’s admission came in response to a question from the senator Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat who is a longtime opponent of the warrantless surveillance of Americans. Wyden told Patel that his predecessor, Christopher Wray, testified in 2023 that the FBI did not at that time purchase location data derived from internet advertising, although he acknowledged that it had done so in the past.
Kinda like how the “cash for clunkers” was to remove vehicles from the highways that didn’t have built in gps tracking (every car made since OnStar was a thing spies on you and can be located almost instantly via GPS and/or triangulation).
Wait what? I thought it was to mitigate pollution. Holy CRAP. Any source on this…?
GPS/Navogation was not standard when Cash for Clunkers was active. GPS in that era was not part of a 2-way system, either. I have a car from later than that, fully loaded. The map comes from an SD card, it does not have any resident cell capability, and all built-in outbound communication functions are sent through a connected phone.
As that commenter came back and commented, it was pulled from their ass.
My source is the depths of my ass where I pulled it from. But I think I’m right…
Lol can’t believe somebody would do this. Just get on the Internet and tell lies. :(
Huh. Is that spy thing onstar or part of GPS that you need to have in your car’s computer bullshit because I don’t doubt mine has the tracker, I just don’t have onstar we cheap
I believe they ditched that brand name years ago, but to my understanding the technology became more or less mandatory, if I recall. So your car must be able to phone home and tattle on you
We don’t have the lo jack or remote they can disable it shit on it, we paid enough down that they took it off and it was still a separate piece of hardware back then, at least it was right on the border timewise of it being separate hardware. Now I want to know when they started integrating it into the center console and shit but I do not trust the Googles to know.