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F.B.I. Agents Get Leeway to Push Privacy Bounds

Date: June 12, 2011

Author: Charles "Charlie" Savage

QUOTE: The Federal Bureau of Investigation is giving significant new powers to its roughly 14,000 agents, allowing them more leeway to search databases, go through household trash or use surveillance teams to scrutinize the lives of people who have attracted their attention.

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Key People:

• Michael German Esq.

Key Organizations:

• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• New York Times Company

Subject & Geographic Categories:

• Abstract Principles
  • Control / Access / Permission
    • Principles / Guidelines / Rules / Policy
  • Information

• Law & Justice
  • Civil Rights / Equal Protection
    • Privacy: Other
      • Anonymity/Surveillance/Identity Theft/Confidentiality
  • Criminal Law
    • Criminal Justice System
      • Police / Policing

• North America
  • United States of America/USA

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