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FBI Caught Spying on Signal Group Chat of Immigration Activists (newrepublic.com)

submitted 3 days ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Keep a close eye on who’s joining your group chats.

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[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I’m sorry but if the FBI is monitoring a chat log, they need a warrant. It doesn’t matter if they were mistakenly given access, they need to justify their reason for being there and to define the specific crime they are investigating.

Of course it won’t happen because we’ve given our government too much power to fuck around without consequences.

[–] Triumph@fedia.io 7 points 3 days ago

If someone who is not a government agent has the information, and gives it to the authorities, no, a warrant is not required.