Jeremy Scott

Or, you know, gather information about you, you know, where you're going throughout the day for your location or tracking your location.

But with this case, Smith v. Maryland, that was decided decades ago, that basically says if you give your information out to a third party, then you kind of lose privacy interest in it.

And so the government has used that to get around the Fourth Amendment requirement, judicial warrant requirement, to obtain data from companies that, if the government collected directly themselves, would require a warrant.

The data collection and particularly the infrastructure that allows for that data collection also allows for extreme abuses.

So when you undermine our privacy and our civil liberties and you target people because they're saying stuff that the government doesn't like, or you try to use it to undermine people's ability to participate in their government.

And that is the biggest concern here.

And that's something I think people are starting to realize.

is that this large-scale surveillance infrastructure is something that is not only a threat to individual privacy, but is a threat to our democracy.

There's really a lack of laws that regulate this, and that's part of the problem.

That's part of the work I do is pushing for legislation that would address this loophole that's been created by the government, buying data directly from companies that the government would have to get a judicial warrant for if it was going to collect directly themselves.

Montana has actually passed a law, and I think they're the first state to do so, a law that would close the data broker loophole and kind of protect that data from the government.

Now, they still could get a warrant to get the data, but they can no longer just use this loophole around the Fourth Amendment and purchase the data directly from companies without getting a warrant.

And the bill itself is, I think, largely, if I recall, modeled after the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act, which is a federal bill introduced by Senator Ron Wyden previously and something he continues to push for.

The man known locally and colloquially as Maz was a ten-time All-Star.

A native of Tiltonsville, Ohio, a little over an hour from Pittsburgh, Mazeroski never strayed too far from home, spending his entire 17-year career with the Pirates.

His walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth during the final game of the 1960 World Series put the Pirates over the New York Yankees to win the championship.

A statue depicting his running of the base path after the hit sits outside the Pirates' stadium at PNC Park,

where fan Patty Petrisch was placing flowers shortly after his death was announced.

Mazeroski was 89.

For NPR News, I'm Jeremy Scott in Pittsburgh.