The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Weird Florida Company

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The FBI Has Been Buying Bulk Internet Data from This Florida Company

is heavily redacted and doesn’t given much away about the broader purpose of the bureau’s data acquisition. However, it does show that, in 2017, the government paid a total of $76,450 for the information haul. Just what the bureau’s Cyber Division ended up doing with that data isn’t exactly clear, although Motherboardthat the data in question is what is known as “netflow” data, which, in some cases, can allegedly be used to track cybercriminal activity.

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