{"id":14600,"date":"2020-11-30T08:53:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=14600"},"modified":"2020-11-30T08:53:48","modified_gmt":"2020-11-30T16:53:48","slug":"senator-wyden-to-introduce-legislation-to-stop-the-irs-from-spying-on-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/senator-wyden-to-introduce-legislation-to-stop-the-irs-from-spying-on-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Wyden to introduce legislation to stop the IRS from spying on Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in hot water and under investigation by its oversight body for buying location information on American citizens without a warrant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/m7agpa\/irs-location-data-venntel-contract\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Motherboard<\/a> has seen the contract between Venntel and the IRS that confirms how the IRS was spying on American citizens. Now, Senator Wyden has unveiled plans to introduce legislation that will stop the IRS from buying location data from third party companies like Venntel.<\/p>\n<p>This data is gathered by Venntel through agreements with mobile applications which siphon your personal information for advertising purposes. The thing is, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/how-the-government-legally-tracks-your-smartphone-use-with-the-anomaly-six-sdk\/\">government is also utilizing this data<\/a> \u2013 which they obviously aren\u2019t allowed by the Constitution to collect by themselves. Besides the IRS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/us-government-proves-again-that-it-has-no-problem-spying-on-american-citizens\/\">US Customs Border Protection (CBP)<\/a> has also been revealed to have a Venntel contract. It seems that many three letter agencies, certainly not just limited to the IRS, have been using this tactic to spy on Americans and it\u2019s high time that legislation was introduced to stop this widespread privacy violating practice.<\/p>\n<p>Because the information comes directly from your mobile phone, it can provide accurate location data even if your phone is spoofing GPS coordinates and changing its IP address. The document between the IRS and Venntel highlights why the IRS would want to use this technology and what for:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis allows tracing and pattern-of-life analysis on locations of interesting criminal investigations, allowing investigators to trace locations of mobile devices even if a target is using anonymizing technologies like a proxy server, which is common in cyber investigations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>The quest to stop the IRS from violating the Constitutional rights of American citizens<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/irs-being-investigated-for-tracking-american-location-data-without-a-warrant\/\">Senators Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren<\/a> first called on the Inspector general to investigate the IRS\u2019s warrantless spying on location data earlier this year in June. Now, Motherboard has obtained the formal agreement between the IRS and Venntel which highlights that the IRS was allowed to query Venntel\u2019s location database up to 12,000 times per month. While this emphasizes that the IRS wasn\u2019t conducting widespread surveillance on the entire American population, it is clear that they were using this data in a targeted manner \u2013 which is still a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Wyden explained to Motherboard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis contract makes clear that the IRS intended to use Venntel\u2019s spying tool to identify specific smartphone users using data collected by apps and sold onwards to shady data brokers. The IRS would have needed a warrant to obtain this kind of sensitive information from AT&amp;T or Google.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that the unconstitutional dealings between the IRS and Venntel have been laid out for the world to see, Senator Wyden plans to introduce legislation to stop it once and for all. Senator Wyden stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe only reason the IRS went to Venntel instead was to buy their way around the 4th Amendment. I\u2019ll be introducing legislation in the next few weeks to close this loophole and ensure that Americans rights are protected.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When the legislation will be introduced remains to be seen but both the IRS and Venntel refused to comment to Motherboard about the ongoing fiasco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has been in hot water and under investigation by its oversight body for buying location information on American citizens without a warrant. 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