{"id":14320,"date":"2020-10-08T08:05:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=14320"},"modified":"2020-10-08T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T15:05:53","slug":"irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/","title":{"rendered":"IRS being investigated for tracking American location data without a warrant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an oversight body, and according to Motherboard, that oversight body has launched a formal investigation into the IRS\u2019s use of location data without a warrant. The investigation was kicked off after Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren demanded that there be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/xg8by3\/irs-phone-tracking-warrant-wyden-warren\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">formal investigation<\/a>. The IRS revealed to Senator Wyden\u2019s office in June that the tax agency had bought a set of location data from a data broker known as Venntel. Venntel gets location data from innocuous apps that send data back home, likely through an embedded SDK, and aggregates them for sale to private parties. According to Wyden\u2019s office, the IRS admitted that the criminals they were hoping to locate using the Venntel data were not in the data set. Motherboard has additionally recently reported that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/n7wakg\/cbp-dhs-location-data-venntel-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. Customs and Border Protection<\/a> (CBP) has also purchased Venntel location data.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Smartphone user location data should be protected from the IRS and other agencies<\/h2>\n<p>Law enforcement has traditionally relied on the third party doctrine to get location data from telecommunications companies. However, since 2017, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carpenter_v._United_States\">Carpenter v. United States<\/a> has resulted in cell phone location records no longer being accessible under the third party doctrine. In response, law enforcement is now going to marketing and advertising companies that focus on aggregating personal information on internet users including and certainly not limited to location to get the desired location information on targets.<\/p>\n<p>The Inspector General wrote in a letter confirming the investigation to Senator Wyden\u2019s office:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYou requested that TIGTA investigate CI\u2019s use of commercial databases in the performance of its duties, and that TIGTA examine the legal analysis IRS lawyers performed to authorize this practice. Your concern is that CI\u2019s use of the data described above may not be consistent with the holding of the Supreme Court in the case Carpenter v. United States.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The oversight body promised to reveal the results of their investigation:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cUpon compilation, to the extent allowable under the law, we will advise you of the results.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even if the government is able to rein itself in and stop agencies from doing illegal things with readily available location data that is technically legally siphoned up from smartphone users\u2019 phones, the fact that that data exists should give us pause. According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/survey-finds-85-of-smartphone-users-believe-theyre-being-spied-on-by-a-mobile-app\/\">recent survey<\/a>, the vast majority of Americans believe that at least one app on their smartphone is spying on them. This newly launched investigation into the IRS highlights one of the bad things that can happen with such information being out in the wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an oversight body, and according to Motherboard, that oversight body has launched a formal investigation into the IRS\u2019s use of location data without a warrant. The investigation was kicked off after Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren demanded that there be a formal investigation. The IRS revealed to Senator &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;IRS being investigated for tracking American location data without a warrant&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,130,1941],"tags":[2027,1888,801,2025,2026],"class_list":["post-14320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-governments","category-surveillance","tag-carpenter-v-united-states","tag-irs","tag-location-data","tag-venntel","tag-warrantless"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>IRS being investigated for tracking American location data without a warrant<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an oversight body, and according to Motherboard, that oversight body has launched a formal investigation into the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"IRS being investigated for tracking American location data without a warrant\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has an oversight body, and according to Motherboard, that oversight body has launched a formal investigation into the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"PIA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/privateinternetaccess\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-10-08T15:05:53+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IRS-being-investigated-for-tracking-American-location-data-without-a-warrant.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Caleb Chen\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@http:\/\/twitter.com\/bitxbitxbitcoin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@buyvpnservice\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Caleb Chen\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Caleb Chen\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0558caeb5ffc3548403d0391401d6bb7\"},\"headline\":\"IRS being investigated for tracking American location data without a warrant\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-10-08T15:05:53+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\"},\"wordCount\":439,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/IRS-being-investigated-for-tracking-American-location-data-without-a-warrant.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Carpenter v. 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