A U.S. government contract website that is supposed to show the public what agencies are spending money on is quietly removing listings detailing the FBI’s purchase of hacking tools and other products…

Some of the removals are likely due to a legitimate concern of private individuals unknowingly having their phone numbers or other personal information posted to the contracting sites and asking for that to be removed. But instead of just deleting or altering that data, the site is removing the listings in their entirety, meaning that the government is ultimately being less transparent around technologies it is purchasing.

Cox, J. (2021, June 23). FBI hacking and tech contracts are vanishing from the web. Vice. https://www.vice.com/en/article/5dbyxz/fbi-hacking-coinbase-contracts-removed-fpds