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FBI claim it’s ok to track Facebook messages

Tech & Branding

According to internal documents, the FBI don’t feel they need search warrants in order to search private e-mails, Facebook chats and direct messages on Twitter.

The documents were obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union a month after the IRL publicly abandoned a policy suggestion that they could in future do just this.

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