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The NSA buys Americans’ internet data, newly released documents show | CNN Business
The National Security Agency has been buying Americans’ web browsing data from commercial data brokers, intelligence officials disclosed in documents made public by a US senator Thursday.
The purchases include information about the websites Americans visit and the apps that they use, said Oregon Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, releasing newly unclassified letters he received from the Pentagon in recent weeks confirming the sales. And Allison Nixon, chief research officer at cybersecurity firm Unit 221B, said there were plenty of legitimate uses for netflow data that can help protect organizations against cyberattacks and do not involve spying on people. The FTC launched a separate process in 2022 that could lead to new regulations targeting what agency chair Lina Khan has called a “commercial surveillance” industry that profits from lax cybersecurity practices and weak restrictions on how consumer data can be collected, shared and analyzed.
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