A number of US House Republicans earlier this week asked the Biden-Harris administration to get behind legislation that would put an end to the current exploitation of surveillance carried out by data brokers – that happens to be warrantless.
The letter signed by nine members of Congress came after news of a security breach that reportedly ended up with personal data from 2.7 billion people getting exposed in a hacking operation.
We obtained a copy of the letter for you here.
Clearly, that’s a number greater than the total number of US citizens, so what’s going on here?
It’s because of data brokers, the signatories of the letter suggest – the “super-state actors,” as some might describe them.
