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This is why I advocate for making selling location/identifying data illegal. If nobody is allowed to sell it then the government cannot legally buy it.


Just because the government can't buy it, doesn't mean they can't ask for it reeeeallllllly persuasively.


Government is supposed to follow the law as much as everybody else. Whatever they do has to hold up as legal in court when contested. If they acquire information illegally they will be losing trials.

If only. (cf., parallel construction)



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