Adam Kovacevich
Contributor
Adam Kovacevich is the CEO and founder of a center-left tech industry coalition called Chamber of Progress and has worked at the intersection of tech and politics for 20 years, leading public policy at Google and Lime and serving as a Democratic Hill aide.
When the Biden administration proposed new protections earlier this month to prevent law enforcement from demanding reproductive healthcare data from companies, they took a critical first step in protecting our personal data. But there remains a different, serious gap in data privacy that Congress needs to address.
While the Constitution prevents the government from compelling companies to turn over your sensitive data without due process, there are no laws or regulations stopping them from just buying it.
And the U.S. government has been buying private data for years.
Despite Supreme Court rulings that the government can’t acquire sensitive personal data like your location without a warrant, sketchy data brokers can and do sell this information directly to the government. They’re exploiting a loophole in our constitutional protections against surveillance: Because this data is sold on the o …
