N.S.A. Buys Americans’ Internet Data Without Warrants, Letter Says - The New York Times

In a letter to the director of national intelligence dated Thursday, the senator, Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, argued that "internet metadata" — logs showing when two computers have communicated, but not the content of any message — "can be equally sensitive" as the location data the F.T.C. is targeting. 

He urged intelligence agencies to stop buying internet data about Americans if it was not collected under the standard the F.T.C. has laid out for location records. 

"The U.S. government should not be funding and legitimizing a shady industry whose flagrant violations of Americans' privacy are not just unethical, but illegal," Mr. Wyden wrote…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/us/politics/nsa-internet-privacy-warrant.html