FISA Section 702, government data consolidation, and expanding surveillance

A new lawsuit alleges DHS assembled voter data from at least 47 states and combined it with immigration, Social Security, and commercial records. The approximately 99 million records cited are not necessarily unique people, the allegations remain unproven, and an earlier ruling does not resolve this case; watch for DHS’s response and any injunction. Broader concerns include uncertain matching and transfer safeguards in government data systems, commercial profiling, personalized pricing, Flock and license-plate searches, broker enforcement, and health-data advertising.