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The Committee is led by Congressman Jim Jordan. Vitka added that “We commend Representatives Jacobs, Jayapal, Lofgren, and Nadler, among others, for their leadership in this defining moment.”Motherboard previously revealed that the U.S. military has bought products that repackage location data harvested from ordinary smartphone apps. Muslim Pro, a Muslim prayer app with more than 98 million downloads, provided data to a company called X-Mode, for example. Motherboard and the Wall Street Journal have also reported on various law enforcement agency purchases of location data. The office of Senator Ron Wyden, who first introduced The Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act in 2021 along with Senator Rand Paul, also found the Pentagon is surveilling Americans without a warrant.“The Fourth Amendment is Not For Sale Act will restore Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights and stop the government from using its credit card when it should be getting a warrant,” Wyden said in a statement after the Committee’s news. “Regular Americans who use their phones on a daily basis are not consenting to send all their movements, contacts and web browsing information to the government. I applaud the Judiciary Committee for advancing our bill on a bipartisan basis, and look forward to following suit in the Senate.”The bill will now go to the full House.Subscribe to our cybersecurity podcast, CYBER. Subscribe to our Twitch channel.Do you know anything else about data selling? We'd love to hear from you. Using a non-work phone or computer, you can contact Joseph Cox securely on Signal on +44 20 8133 5190, Wickr on josephcox, or email joseph.cox@vice.com.