US spy agencies are buying the same surveillance data advertisers crave

An illustration featuring eyes and locks Companies are selling spy-grade data to the government. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge

Surprise, surprise, the US government is buying personal information, including location data, from commercial data brokers — and it may be worse than we knew, according to a report from the US Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), an office headed by director Avril Haines, a US cabinet official who oversees the US intelligence community, which includes a host of military intelligence agencies, as well as the FBI, CIA, NSA, and others.

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