House Rejects Bill That Would Require Feds to Obtain a Warrant to Purchase Americans’ Data by Andrew Thornebrooke – US Politics News

Congress has rejected a bill that, if passed, would require the federal government to obtain a warrant to purchase Americans’ private data from third parties.
HR 4639, “The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act” (FANSA), would amend the U.S. code to clarify that the Fourth Amendment applies to information obtained through commercial means in addition to traditional searches.
In other words, it would ban the U.S. government from purchasing Americans’ private data without a warrant.
The bill was widely believed to have broad bipartisan support and was a critical piece of ongoing negotiations to extend authorization for the controversial Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which effectively allows the government to spy on American citizens if those citizens have communicated with someone outside the country….