联邦调查局确认购买美国公民位置数据。
内容总结：
美国联邦调查局（FBI）近日在国会听证会上承认，该机构通过购买商业数据获取公民位置信息，引发对隐私权保护的广泛质疑。据FBI局长卡什·帕特尔在参议院听证会上的陈述，该行为“符合宪法及《电子通信隐私法》规定”，并称此类数据“为情报工作带来价值”。
然而，这一做法实际上绕过了2018年“卡彭特诉美国案”确立的司法原则——执法部门从通信运营商获取位置数据需获得法院许可。参议院情报委员会成员罗恩·怀登对此批评称，此举“是对宪法第四修正案的公然规避”，并警告人工智能技术正被用于分析海量私人信息，加剧了隐私风险。
值得注意的是，帕特尔此前曾多次陷入滥用职权争议，包括违规调动特警保护女友、擅自参与奥运男子冰球庆祝活动等。与此同时，美国国土安全部因非法追踪移民抗议者被告上法庭，国防部则将拒绝参与大规模监控的AI公司列为“供应链风险”。这些事件共同凸显出美国政府部门在公民隐私保护方面存在的系统性隐患。
目前，多名议员正推动立法改革，以严格限制政府获取公民个人信息的权限。舆论普遍认为，相关法律体系的完善已刻不容缓。
中文翻译：
美国联邦调查局承认购买公民定位数据
无需搜查令，一切照常进行。
在参议院听证会上，联邦调查局局长卡什·帕特尔承认该机构购买了可用于追踪个人行踪和位置的信息。他表示："我们确实会购买符合宪法及《电子通信隐私法》规定的商业信息，这些信息为我们提供了宝贵的情报。"
根据2018年"卡彭特诉美国案"的裁决，执法部门需获得搜查令才能从通信服务商获取定位数据。但既然能从公开市场直接购买信息，又何必大费周章走法律程序？
俄勒冈州民主党参议员罗恩·怀登在情报委员会听证会上指出："这种绕过第四修正案的行为令人震惊，尤其当人工智能被用于筛选海量私人信息时更为危险。"怀登正联合多位议员推动改革，以规范政府获取公民个人信息的权限与方式。
这项改革迫在眉睫。帕特尔早有滥用政府资源的前科——曾派遣特警保护女友，还强行参与近期冬奥会男子冰球夺冠庆祝活动。人们只能期望他不要再挑战本就脆弱的隐私保护底线。
而联邦调查局之外，国土安全部正因非法追踪移民突击搜查抗议者被起诉，国防部则将拒绝参与美国公民大规模监控的人工智能公司Anthropic列为供应链风险企业。
英文来源：
The FBI confirms it's buying Americans' location data
No warrant, no problem.
During a Senate hearing, FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed that his agency has bought information that could be used to track individuals' movement and location. "We do purchase commercially available information that’s consistent with the Constitution and the laws under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and it has led to some valuable intelligence for us," he said.
Law enforcement is required to obtain a warrant in order to get location data from cell service providers following the Carpenter v United States ruling from 2018. But why bother with all that hassle when they can just buy the information from the open market?
"Doing that without a warrant is an outrageous end run around the Fourth Amendment, it’s particularly dangerous given the use of artificial intelligence to comb through massive amounts of private information," Sen. Ron Wyden, (D-Ore.) said during the Intelligence Committee hearing. Wyden is one of several lawmakers pushing for an overhaul of when and how the government can obtain citizens' personal information.
It's an overhaul that's badly needed. Patel already has a history of dubious use of government resources, such as ordering SWAT protections for his girlfriend and somehow horning in on men's hockey victory celebrations at the recent winter Olympics, so one would hope he's not also stretching the limits of the few privacy protections that do exist. Then outside the FBI, we have the Department of Homeland Security being sued for illegally tracking immigration raid protestors and the Pentagon's labeling of Anthropic as a supply-chain risk after the AI company refused to let its products be used for mass surveillance of Americans.