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ACLU to feds: Your "hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy"
The American Civil Liberties Union, along with Privacy International, a similar organization based in the United Kingdom, have now sued 11 federal agencies, demanding records about how those agencies engage in what is often called "lawful hacking."
The activist groups filed Freedom of Information Act requests to the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and nine others. None responded in a substantive way.
"Law enforcement use of hacking presents a unique threat to individual privacy," the ACLU argues in its lawsuit, which was filed Friday in federal court in New York state.
"Hacking can be used to obtain volumes of personal information about individuals that would never previously have been available to law enforcement."
[...] The FBI did not immediately respond to Ars' request for comment.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 24 2018, @09:29PM
No, it's "hacking" if a military-age male (over age of 10) does it, and it's "network investigative technique" when somebody who menstruates regularly does it.
Because, as every feminist knows, an ideal society is one where humanity is male and man defines woman not herself but as relative to him. Thus it makes sense to only allow certain people, depending on evidence of regular menstruation, to engage in "network investigative technique."