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.

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    4 hours ago

    I’m no kid, I understand all that. The difference is that before, there was the potential to track with all of that, but they weren’t really using it for much more beyond using it to target us with ads for cheap consumer crap. It turns out, that was the data parasites just tuning up.

    Now they are going to use AI to weaponize that same data, except the stuff you mentioned will only be a fraction of the thousands upon thousands of data points they will be able to collate, and then scan for patterns and keywords. And it won’t be to sell us shit, it will be used to enslave us.

    You are talking about the larval stage as if that was the end result. It’s not, they still in the cocoon, morphing into their final stage, and it will be as abominable as anything in a Japanese monster movie.

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      ahah dude everything you said will happen is happening except a public facing social credit thing. Laval stages of opening your eyes I guess. Stay safe!