FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, director confirms

Re:FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, directo... by godelski on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @09:08PM (#47433498)

  > They employ some of the best security analysts in the world and have $10-30B/yr revenue

I'll never not be impressed by how many people will defend trillion dollar organizations and say that things are too expensive. Especially when open source projects (including forks!) implement such features.

I'm completely with you, they could do these things if they wanted to. They have the money. They have the manpower. It is just a matter of priority. And we need to be honest, they're spending larger amounts on slop than actual fixes or even making their products better (for the user).

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Re:FBI is buying location data to track US citizens, directo... by antonvs on Thursday March 19, 2026 @03:35AM (#47436077)

“Priorities” is far too soft a term in this context. These are anti-priorities: not just things they choose not to work on, but things they’ll spend big money to prevent, up to and including bribing, uh I mean lobbying, lawmakers.

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