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With a single wiretap, police collected 9.2 million text messages

Posted on June 30, 2019 by pogowasright.org

Zack Whittaker reports:

For four months in 2018, authorities 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.

Read more on TechCrunch.

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