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"Terrorism/spy cases" is just the camel's nose under the tent. It wasn't even 2 years after the 2001 PATRIOT act that the DOJ was using the provisions for drug
by patrickg_zill 10y ago
"Terrorism/spy cases" is just the camel's nose under the tent.
It wasn't even 2 years after the 2001 PATRIOT act that the DOJ was using the provisions for drug cases.
A probably non-exhaustive list is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_the_Patriot_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversial_invocations_of_t...
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- dmix 10y ago> Investigating copyright infringement > Adam McGaughey, the webmaster of a fan site for the television show Stargate SG-1, was charged with copyright infringement and computer fraud. During the investigation, the FBI invoked a provision of the Act to obtain financial records from the site's Internet Service Provider. I never heard this one before. Using terrorism laws to investigate copyright infringment on a scifi TV show fan site. A running theme in these cases: > Millions of phone records were harvested, fed into a database and were searched for patterns of calling to and from numbers of known terrorists. To date, there have been no announced arrests from this program. [..] Furthermore, this information is databased and maintained indefinitely by the FBI.