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The FBI Can Now Search Your Browser History
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Length:
45 minutes
Released:
May 21, 2020
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Podcast episode
Description
Since the dawn of the Patriot Act, a sweeping surveillance bill enacted shortly after 9/11, it’s been both the bane of privacy hawks and the favourite tool of the Intelligence Community. But lately, the Senate, courtesy of Mitch McConnell, helped the IC by giving agencies like the FBI the power to warrantlessly search the browser history of American citizens. That’s terrifying and today we’ve got Motherboard editor/reporter Janus Rose on to breakdown how this happened and what’s next.
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Released:
May 21, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
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