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Vote no on FISA Section 702 reauthorization unless it closes the data broker loophole that lets federal agencies buy Americans' location and personal data without a warrant. This practice is unconstitutional and directly contradicts the 2015 USA Freedom Act that banned bulk data collection on Americans. Federal agencies are purchasing from data brokers the exact information they would need a warrant to obtain. The Supreme Court ruled in Carpenter v. United States that law enforcement needs a warrant for cell phone location data. Buying that same data from brokers to avoid the Fourth Amendment is a blatant end run around our constitutional rights. ICE has ramped up purchases of location tracking tools, and the FBI refuses to commit to stopping these purchases. Artificial intelligence makes this exponentially more dangerous. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei warned that AI can use government-purchased records to assemble "a comprehensive picture of any person's life—automatically and at massive scale." The administration's recent deal with ChatGPT means AI-powered mass surveillance is no longer theoretical. Bipartisan legislation from Rep. Warren Davidson, Sen. Mike Lee, Rep. Zoe Lofgren, and Sen. Ron Wyden would end this practice. Support their reform bill and vote no on any clean reauthorization. FISA expires April 20. This is the moment to protect Americans' privacy.