Ron Wyden

Ron Wyden appears in How government uses "surveillance as a service" to collect data as the senator previously associated with the federal [[FourthAmendmentIsNotForSaleAct|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

• [[FourthAmendmentIsNotForSaleAct|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.