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Government Corruption

FBI subpoenas USATODAY for info on readers

2021-06-05

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Wants everyone who clicked on article during 35-minute window...

The FBI has asked USA Today for the IP addresses and phone numbers of everyone who read one of its articles during a 35-minute period in February as part of an ongoing child porn probe, in what the publisher is calling a violation of the First Amendment.

On February 2, FBI agents Daniel Alfin and Laura Schwartzenberger were killed and three others were wounded when 55-year-old David Huber started shooting as they approached his apartment in Fort Lauderdale shortly after 6am.

He was suspected of possessing child porn, but the FBI has never revealed why. After killing the agents, he took his own life.

Posted by:Ebbomoger Speaking for Boskone4589

#4 ^^^^^^^^
Do I detect a pattern there?

Posted by: NoMoreBS 2021-06-05 11:19

#3 /\ QUESTION: Now that this illegal action has been exposed. What punitive actions will the DOJ AG and/or FBI Director take to address it?

Yes, please file under Clinton home-brew servers, Seth Rich murder, DNC IT guru Shahid Imran Awan's Falls Church car lot, Julian Assange and Ghislaine Maxwell's detention, Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, shooting of Ashli Babbitt, Doctor Fauci e-mails, demographic breakdown of Waco, TX Branch Dividian dead, mission to kill Osama bin Laden, and on, and on.

Posted by: Besoeker 2021-06-05 09:16

#2 Thank you for that perspective, NN2N1. Moved to Government Corruption.

Posted by: trailing wife 2021-06-05 09:01

#1
While I can see the lazy low hanging fruit ITSEC thought process used behind the request. US LAW is clear on such broad 1984 style data hunts by the government. It is a felony level criminal violation of civil rights and is unacceptable. Warrant-less searches and this type of "selective data request" are a big step over the acceptable investigative legal line.

Besides the FBI has a great IT Forensics / Data Collection Team and should have all they need from the shooters computers.

NOTE:
Currently, a Government skunk works, with just a few unnoticed $1000 could set up a 3rd party (front shell company) and purchase the collected data. All without the exposure and headlines.

Such Internet Privacy and civil rights abuses are continuing to grow. An will until our elected officials enact a real Internet Use and Privacy Act. A Internet Bill Of Rights that protects the users and requires the criminal and civil punishment of ANY violators. Not the watered down version that the big campaign donor Social-Media Data Mining companies wanted and got.

QUESTION: Now that this illegal action has been exposed. What punitive actions will the DOJ AG and/or FBI Director take to address it?

Posted by: NN2N1 2021-06-05 07:49

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