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The DEA Is Skipping Warrants and Buying Data from Rogue Employees

In America, no one can protect you from a transportation employee being paid off by the feds. The Drug Enforcement Agency has a single remit: to prosecute America’s long-failed war on drugs. Joseph Cox is on today’s episode of Cyber to talk about one its shadier practices and the senators who want answers from the Department of Justice. It turns out that the DEA has been paying Amtrak and commercial package companies to act as informants and supply data on customers without having to get a warrant. Stories discussed in this episode: <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/3akn8v/the-dea-bought-customer-data-airlines-parcel-bus-amtrak-no-warrant" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The DEA Bought Customer Data from Rogue Employees Instead of Getting a Warrant</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/4a3ddb/restrict-act-insanely-broad-ban-tiktok-vpns" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3z9a/fbi-bought-netflow-data-team-cymru-contract" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Here is the FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data</a> <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3zex/cops-sue-afroman-for-emotional-distress-after-he-made-music-videos-of-botched-raid" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Cops Sue Afroman for 'Emotional Distress' After He Made Music Videos of Botched Raid</a> We’re recording CYBER live on<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Twitch</a> and<a href="https://www.youtube.com/motherboard" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> YouTube</a>. Watch live during the week.<a href="https://www.twitch.tv/motherboardtv/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Follow us</a> there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.  Subscribe to<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cyber/id1441708044?mt=2" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> CYBER on Apple Podcasts</a> or wherever you listen to your podcasts. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

Hacking. Hackers. Disinformation campaigns. Encryption. The Cyber. This stuff gets complicated really fast, but Motherboard spends its time embedded in the infosec world so you don't have to. Host Matthew Gault talks every week to Motherboard reporters about the stories they're breaking and to the industry's most famous hackers and researchers about the biggest news in cybersecurity. Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.