{"id":282750,"date":"2026-06-26T18:11:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns-brief\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:30:25","slug":"atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns-brief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns-brief\/","title":{"rendered":"ATF cancels contract for ad-surveillance technology after privacy concerns | brief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/brief\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns\">ATF cancels contract for ad-surveillance technology after privacy concerns | brief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/brief\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns\">https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/brief\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 18:11:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scworld.com\">www.scworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As outlined in CyberScoop, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) has canceled a contract with Penlink that utilized ad-surveillance technologies to track Americans&#8217; locations. This decision follows revelations that the agency was purchasing geolocation data through a contract described as an &#8220;ad-tech type thing.&#8221;The ATF&#8217;s contract with Penlink for its Webloc commercial location surveillance tool was canceled after ATF Director Robert Cekada acknowledged its existence in a congressional hearing. While Cekada stated the system had not been used in a criminal case due to a lack of established policies, his office later indicated the agency had conducted over 340 searches using the system, with more than 222 tied to active ATF case numbers. Penlink&#8217;s platform offers real-time data collection and AI-driven analysis.Senator Ron Wyden, who received a briefing on the matter, called the cancellation a victory for constitutional rights but urged Congress to pass legislation to close the data broker loophole. Wyden&#8217;s office noted that the purchase of such data is illegal in some states and has been deemed a deceptive practice by the FTC. The use of ad-tech for surveillance is a growing concern, with potential for misuse by malicious actors.Source: CyberScoop<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/brief\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATF cancels contract for ad-surveillance technology after privacy concerns | brief https:\/\/www.scworld.com\/brief\/atf-cancels-contract-for-ad-surveillance-technology-after-privacy-concerns Publish Date: 2026-06-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":282751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/files.cyberriskalliance.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Privacy_written_in_tiles-scaled-e1670447300533.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-282750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282752,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282750\/revisions\/282752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}