CEP Magazine (February 2021)

Articles in The Wall Street Journal and Vice reveal details into how the US military purchases personal data from intermediaries in the data industry to use for surveillance actions. The Wall Street Journal article focuses on the US Air Force Research Laboratory that is testing a commercial platform that can slurp up personal data from devices connected to the Internet of Things and crunch them into a database to help keep tabs on the populace.^[1]

The Vice story focuses on military purchases of data.^[2] It outlines the personal data supply chain; how such purchases are made; and what laws, if any, govern such purchases of personal data.

1 Byron Tau, “Next Step in Government Data Tracking Is the Internet of Things,” The Wall Street Journal, November 27, 2020, https://on.wsj.com/3moFdFp.
2 Joseph Cox, “How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from Ordinary Apps,” Vice, November 16, 2020, https://bit.ly/2Jq9N2O.

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