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The FBI Really Doesn’t Want the Public to Know About This Surveillance Device
Loaded on Sept. 1, 2024
by Michael Thompson
published in Criminal Legal News
September, 2024, page 34
by Michael Dean Thompson
The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) successfully sued for access to FBI information regarding cell-site simulators (“CSS”). For years, the FBI has used nondisclosure agreements (“NDA”) to hide their use of CSSs from the public and the courts. Now, thanks to the Freedom of Information Act ...
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