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With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages

With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages

FromTechCrunch Industry News


With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages

FromTechCrunch Industry News

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3 minutes
Released:
Jul 3, 2019
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For four months in 2018, U.S. prosecutors in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly released figures show. The wiretap, granted by a federal judge in the Southern District of Texas, was granted as part of a narcotics investigation and became the federal wiretap with the most intercepts in 2018, according to the government’s annual wiretap report.
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Jul 3, 2019
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