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How the Backdoor Loophole Enables the FBI to Search Your Communications Without a Warrant

Loaded on Oct. 1, 2023 by Michael Thompson published in Criminal Legal News October, 2023, page 43
Filed under: FBI, Cell-Phone Location/Tracking Data. Location: United States of America.

by Michael Dean Thompson

The 2008 Foreign Intelligence ­Surveillance Amendments Act (“FAA”) Section 702 (codified as 50 U.S.C. § 1881A) exists to facilitate the capture of the communications of foreign actors as they pass through American facilities and hardware. However, in the process, the communications of American citizens are being captured ...

 

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