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Witnesses warn Congress: data‑broker sales, facial recognition and AI broaden surveillance beyond FISA gaps
Summary
At a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing, witnesses and members cautioned that commercial data‑broker sales, facial recognition services and AI tools enable federal agencies to track Americans without court oversight, and urged statutory limits and agency audits.
Witnesses at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing on October 12 told lawmakers that U.S. agencies routinely obtain Americans’ sensitive information without warrants by purchasing data from commercial brokers and by using facial‑recognition and AI tools.
The concern: Kia Hamadanshi of the ACLU and others said federal agencies can “sidestep the requirements of the Fourth Amendment” by buying bulk data — including location and health information — from private firms, and then searching those commercial datasets without judicial oversight. James Chernowski listed “closing the data broker loophole” among his top…
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