Where's The Outrage Over The Gov't Brushing Mass Privacy Violati...

Courtesy Techdirt  Thu, 03/11/2010 - 12:11

I have to admit that I've been a bit in shock over Congress's decision to simply renew the Patriot Act, recently, without a single safeguard to protect against abuse.

That's because just before all this happened, we wrote about how a report from the government found (not for the first time) that the FBI regularly abused its authority to get phone records it had no right to.

This went well beyond earlier reports of abusing National Security Letters....

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