Elizabeth Warren Wants To Know Why This Company Was Spying On BLM Protesters

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A group of Democratic lawmakers is demanding answers about protester surveillance conducted by data broker Mobilewalla.

Four lawmakers, including Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, said Tuesday that they have"serious concerns" about data-mining company Mobilewallathe company had used cellphone location data to predict the race, age, gender, and home location of more than 17,000 Black Lives Matter protesters.

The lawmakers, who said they were “concerned that data collected by Mobilewalla or other data brokers could be used to enable state-sponsored retaliation against protesters,” demanded Datta respond by Aug. 17. In their letter, the lawmakers said Mobilewalla had surveilled people who were “participating in First Amendment-protected activities." They also suggested that if the company gave cellphone data to a government agency, it may havewhich requires police to get a warrant first. There's currently no federal law that regulates how data brokers like Mobilewalla can buy, repackage, and sell people’s information.

 

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