Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act

Floor Speech

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Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Chair, I am proud to cosponsor this important bipartisan bill that protects Americans' constitutional privacy rights in this digital age by closing loopholes so that the government cannot purchase Americans' private data from data brokers without a warrant.

Last year, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence declassified a report on how the intelligence community buys significant amounts of Americans' data from data brokers.

We are talking about very sensitive personal information that can cover anything from Americans' location data to internet activity.

That report noted that this data ``has increasingly important risks and implications for U.S. person privacy and civil liberties, as [the data] can reveal sensitive and intimate information about individuals.''

This isn't just some small group of people saying that we don't like this. It is actually the Office of the Director of National Intelligence saying that this practice of buying peoples' personal information without a warrant from these data brokers is dangerous, and it is a runaround of our constitutional protections.

Just last month, we banned foreign adversaries from buying this data. It is important that this body today protect Americans, protect our constitutional rights, and ban this practice. Vote ``yes'' on this bill.

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