Gizmodo: Law Enforcement Is Buying Its Way Into Our Breaches

Gizmodo: Law Enforcement Is Buying Its Way Into Our Breaches by Shoshana Wodinsky:

Earlier today, Vice got its hands on a pitch deck from a company offering federal agencies exclusive access to data mined from hacks and breaches across the web. The company in question, Spycloud, boasts that offering cops access to pilfered datasets — which might hold victims’ passwords, email addresses, credit card numbers, or, well, anything else that hackers might hack — is a way to “[turn] the criminals’ data against them.” Snooping inside these datasets, they explained, could, hypothetically, give law enforcement agencies a lead that they might not have considered before. And because Spycloud is a private company, these agencies can fudge the Fourth Amendment to get their hands on that data wherever they want, whenever they want, no warrant required.