Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden appears in How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data as the senator previously associated with the federal Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act. Jeremy Scott says Montana’s law closing the Data Broker Loophole was largely modeled on that federal proposal.

In this source, Wyden matters as a legislative signal: the privacy problem has moved from abstract concern over data brokers to proposed warrant requirements for government purchases of information that would otherwise require judicial approval.

Connections

• Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act - federal bill reference.
• Montana - state law modeled on the federal proposal in the episode.
• Data Broker Loophole, Government Data Broker Access, and Fourth Amendment Digital Privacy - policy area.