In 2019, Oracle partnered with location data provider Bluedot (one of many such partners), who claimed that its data would provide a twentyfold improvement in pinpointing an individual’s location. In doing so, data brokers circumvent limits on companies directly handing data to law enforcement (e.g., a cellular company can sell user data to a data broker which can then sell the data to the FBI). The federal government agencies using the data may then also circumvent a variety of legal restrictions in place around searches and seizures as well as federal controls which aren’t applied to “open source” or “commercially obtained” data, even if the data is on US individuals.