Died in committee
Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act
Stoppedno longer moving
Good for your rightsDormant
Passed the House in the 118th Congress; died in the Senate
A protective bill that would stop the government buying Americans' data from brokers to sidestep a warrant. Passed the House in 2024, died in the Senate.
The bill
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- Where
- United States
- Bill number
- H.R.4639 (118th)
- Status
- Dormant
- Introduced
- July 18, 2023
- Threat
- Low
- Last update
- January 3, 2025
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What it does
The Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act would stop police and intelligence agencies from buying Americans' location and communications data from brokers without a court order. It closes the gap that lets agencies purchase what they would otherwise need a warrant to get.
What’s at stake
Buying data from brokers is how agencies skip the warrant. Shutting the broker loophole puts the court order back in front of information about ordinary people.
Our take
One of the good ones. It passed the House with a bipartisan majority in 2024, then stalled in the Senate against White House objections. The idea keeps returning because the broker loophole keeps growing.
Previous versions
Passed the House 219-199; died in the Senate
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