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FBI claims it ‘misused’ surveillance tool over 270k times between 2020-2021

14 points by mikece 3y ago

godelski 3y ago
> An unsealed document shows the FBI supposedly “misused” a surveillance tool over 270,000 times from May 2020 to January 2021. So, the second half of 2020. That's a large number for such a short period of time. But there needs to be a better link than this website. It is far too politically charged and biased.
- mikece 3y ago
  > But there needs to be a better link than this website. It is far too politically charged and biased. Agreed... but when nobody else will publish what's the alternative?
  - chomp 3y ago
    There's so many articles on the internet from more reputable sources than this site, implying that no one else is publishing the news is wrong. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/newly-public-fisc-opinion-best-evidence-why-congress-must-end-section-702 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/newly-public-fisc-opin... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-surveillance-program-rules.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/fbi-digital-surveillance-misuse-jan6-blm/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-foreign-surveillance-law-280k-times-to-snoop-on-people-in-the-us/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-fore...
    - godelski 3y ago
      Yeah I'd suggest the EFF one, as it is probably the least politically contentious and most aligned with HN (being highly computer oriented). Maybe Dang can change the link and/or mike can resubmit.
greenyoda 3y ago
There have already been two large discussions of this topic in the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011550 (wsj.com, 4 days ago, 251 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059 (theregister.com, 1 day ago, 220 comments)

14 points by mikece 3y ago

> An unsealed document shows the FBI supposedly “misused” a surveillance tool over 270,000 times from May 2020 to January 2021. So, the second half of 2020. That's a large number for such a short period of time. But there needs to be a better link than this website. It is far too politically charged and biased.

mikece 3y ago
> But there needs to be a better link than this website. It is far too politically charged and biased. Agreed... but when nobody else will publish what's the alternative?
- chomp 3y ago
  There's so many articles on the internet from more reputable sources than this site, implying that no one else is publishing the news is wrong. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/newly-public-fisc-opinion-best-evidence-why-congress-must-end-section-702 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/newly-public-fisc-opin... https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-surveillance-program-rules.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/19/us/politics/fbi-violated-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/fbi-digital-surveillance-misuse-jan6-blm/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/05/19/... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-foreign-surveillance-law-280k-times-to-snoop-on-people-in-the-us/ https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/fbi-misused-fore...
  - godelski 3y ago
    Yeah I'd suggest the EFF one, as it is probably the least politically contentious and most aligned with HN (being highly computer oriented). Maybe Dang can change the link and/or mike can resubmit.

greenyoda 3y ago

There have already been two large discussions of this topic in the last few days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36011550 (wsj.com, 4 days ago, 251 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36041059 (theregister.com, 1 day ago, 220 comments)