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FBI demands info on readers of USA Today story
- 1cvmask 5y agoStraight out of the US/Soviet/Chinese/European surveillance state playbook. They should just ask the NSA for those details. The NSA and their colleagues at Israel and 5 eyes already scoop up information on American citizens. https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4719064/the-nsa-shares-raw-intelligence-data-with-israel-according-to-leaked https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/11/4719064/the-nsa-shares-ra...
- hoppyhoppy2 5y agoThe FBI may already have the info that way, but now need a second way to obtain it either for it to be admissible in court or to protect the details of their methods. This is known as "parallel construction." https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origins-evidence-us-criminal-cases https://www.hrw.org/report/2018/01/09/dark-side/secret-origi...
- hoppyhoppy2 5y agoThis is being discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401862 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27401862 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27403478 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27403478