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Tag: warrantless searches

Newspaper goes to fed court over reporter’s notes

Posted on November 22, 2013

From The Washington Post: WASHINGTON — A Washington newspaper has asked a federal judge to force the Coast Guard to return any documents and copies of records it seized from a reporter while searching her home last summer as part of a gun investigation involving her husband.

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Tagged Department of Homeland Security (DHS), journalism, warrantless searches, warrants

CISPA plan to let feds receive confidential data wins big House vote

Posted on April 18, 2013

From CNET news:

The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a controversial data-sharing bill that would authorize e-mail and Internet providers to share confidential information with the federal government.

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Tagged CISPA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FBI, National Security Agency (NSA), warrantless database searches, warrantless searches

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