U.S. Intelligence Acquires "Significant Amount" Of Americans' Personal Data, Concerning Report Finds

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June 16, 2023

The U.S. intelligence community routinely acquires "a significant amount" of Americans' personal data, according to a new report released this week by a top spy agency.

The report outlined both privacy and counterintelligence concerns stemming from the ability of U.S. government agencies and foreign adversaries to draw from a growing pool of potentially sensitive information available online.

Absent proper controls, commercially available information, known as CAI, "can reveal sensitive and intimate information about the personal attributes, private behavior, social connections, and speech of U.S. persons and non-U.S. persons," the report, compiled last year by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, found.

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