Government Buys Data to Bypass Warrants

U.S. agencies are increasingly purchasing commercial data (location histories, brokered profiles) and partnering with private tech firms to feed AI surveillance systems, rather than collecting information under traditional warrant and statutory safeguards. That creates an effective route around constitutional protections and wire‑tap statutes because commercially acquired data often falls outside the same legal limits. — If true, this practice shifts how privacy law works in practice and demands legislative and judicial attention to close a major loophole at the intersection of surveillance, data markets, and AI.