US Senator Ron Wyden on Thursday asked US Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to stop US intelligence agencies from purchasing Americans’ unlawfully collected personal data from data brokers. In a letter [PDF] to Haines, Wyden (D-OR) said that not only are US intelligence agencies buying location data harvested from Americans’ smartphones that would normallyrequire a court order, but the NSA has been purchasing Americans’ domestic internet metadata, including their browsing habits.

Source: The Register