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"Dragnet" Definitions
  1. a US television police series in the early 1950s and again in the 1960s on NBC. It received three Emmy awards (1952-4). Jack Webb wrote and produced it and played the main character, Sergeant Joe Friday. Dragnet had earlier been a radio series, and was based on cases of the Los Angeles Police Department. It was the first US programme of its type to be shown on British television (in 1955). There have been two later Dragnet series (1967-70 and 2003-4) and a film was made in 1987.
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In 2009, in the wake of problems in the phone dragnet program, Reggie Walton made the NSA conduct an end-to-end review of the internet dragnet to look for problems.
Two factors will limit the size of the deportation dragnet.
The dragnet comes as the city wrestles with several changes.
Cubeyou got caught up in the dragnet in early April.
Fourteen people have been arrested in the Dominican dragnet, Duran said.
Instead, FATCA imposes an indiscriminate information dragnet requiring all non-U.
Technology permits law enforcement to capture sensitive data in dragnet fashion.
But the dragnet, from the beginning, has far exceeded the threat.
It could lead to dragnet searches stretching across borders, they argue.
It's quite another to use as a dragnet for political dissidents.
So ducking out of its surveillance dragnet entirely is especially hard.
The government's demonetization dragnet will no doubt catch some illicit cash.
"She was a big 'Dragnet' fan — 'just the facts,' " he said.
He played LAPD Detective Sergeant Joe Friday on the great Dragnet series.
After the bloodbath, Salah Abdeslam evaded a dragnet to return to Brussels.
Some of those caught in the dragnet are left scratching their heads.
Acton grew afraid that WhatsApp would turn into a mass surveillance dragnet.
So to test that further, Rocha and his team extended their dragnet globally.
The courts may also take a pair of scissors to a deportation dragnet.
Critics accuse him of using the dragnet to rid himself of political opponents.
South Korean noodles — with 0.002 percent sugar content — were snagged in the dragnet.
We want, as Joe Friday used to say in 'Dragnet,' just the facts.
A dragnet ensued, and Mr. Yarrington was positively identified in Florence on Sunday.
Today on Sky Cinema Comedy: 13 showings of #GroundhogDay followed by Dragnet 😂 pic.twitter.
But if they do a dragnet, then we'll have serious legal and policy problems.
Cops aren't exactly throwing out a dragnet because he's only facing a trespassing charge.
"Clapper for all intents and purposes just authorized a Global dragnet for social media."
But he had evaded a police dragnet in Brussels' Molenbeek district for four months.
Father Glasberg ran an operation of Christians committed to rescuing Jews from the dragnet.
In the 211s, Dragnet showed Sergeant Joe Friday solving crimes with a cool professionalism.
Under this interpretation, the FBI was targeting specific users, rather than casting a dragnet.
BNP members say that this week's dragnet caught more than 2,100 of its activists.
Many have accused Erdogan of using the dragnet as an excuse to purge opponents.
Her other acting credits included Hawaii, Dragnet 1967, The Bob Newhart Show, and Logan's Run.
As a result, U.S. citizens have been swept into the intel dragnet by the millions.
And foreigners not from China are suddenly finding themselves caught up in the CFIUS dragnet.
Investigators will continue to work from phoned-in resident complaints rather than dragnet internet searches.
Justice Kennedy did not contest that hundreds of innocent Muslim men were grabbed in this dragnet.
Here's how to check if you were one of the users caught in Cambridge Analytica's dragnet.
As a result, cases were often dismissed, and the dragnet forced the court to close down.
Disclosure of Mr Fachin's list has reassured Brazilians that the dragnet is going ahead without interference.
It's a dragnet that now encompasses Alphabet and Amazon (but I don't think it touches Facebook?).
But China's sensors and cameras also create a data dragnet, offering China's surveillance state unprecedented omniscience.
In China, a facial recognition surveillance dragnet can quickly track down individuals in cities of millions.
So you don't even have to be a user to be pulled into this surveillance dragnet.
With the victim, an investment banker, in an unresponsive coma, police launched a dragnet across Harlem.
Bates had withheld reauthorization of the internet dragnet until asking several rounds of follow-up questions.
"The government has not engaged in mass, dragnet exclusions in the past 50 years," Katyal said.
Western politicians say the dragnet is a pretext for Erdogan to rid himself of his opponents.
In North Carolina and Georgia, where organized advocacy is sparse, the dragnet has been unusually aggressive.
The dragnet indicated that an Eritrean, based in Tripoli, was at the center of the network.
That drive has created a dragnet that has swept over the creative arts, leaving few unaffected.
A European dragnet spread across five countries after suicide bombers struck in Brussels, killing 26 people.
But if there is a "dragnet" in Travis County, Jones' wife might be in on it.
But it remained unclear how many of the deportees in his promised dragnet would be Mexican.
But increasingly, even careful web users can't avoid being swept up in the digital marketing dragnet.
Beijing's dragnet is extending around Xiao Jianhua, one of China's wealthiest and most politically connected financiers.
He calls them "a highly successful force multiplier," which is true if you want a dragnet.
But the dragnet effort reportedly involved snapping photos of anyone who stared into the kiosk's watchful abyss.
Saudi Arabia has also widened its anti-dissent dragnet, arresting two US dual citizens earlier this year.
Any phones within that kilometre radius would have had potentially identifying information swept up in the dragnet.
The dragnet has fanned fears that Beijing is exploiting the relative openness of the American scientific system.
Could any of those emails be dragged into a dragnet in the next round of congressional subpoenas?
The television show "Dragnet" was a bit before my time, but I remember watching it in reruns.
Still, Mr. Erdogan's dragnet is indefensible, and the Turkish leader has steadily eroded the rule of law.
The dragnet can include data from dozens or hundreds of devices — and can sometimes ensnare innocent people.
Jack Huang also spoke out against poaching, but a different kind of dragnet was closing around him.
Eventually, the expanding surveillance dragnet even swept up other American citizens, as Reuters reported earlier this year.
Armored vehicles and thousands of National Guard troops cast a dragnet across the Boston suburb of Watertown.
To the Editor: "The Costs of Mr. Trump's Dragnet" is right on but doesn't go far enough.
"The government cannot use the border as a dragnet to search through our private data," she said.
The governor's office later tried to clarify, saying it had not ordered up a dragnet for street people.
Phillip Vannatter offer their own Dragnet-style tour of the murders: just the facts, as they collected them.
Trump has not addressed the potential economic fallout of a nationwide dragnet, or what his plan would cost.
One is the dragnet version where everyone has to take out their ID, because they're talking to everyone.
Online privacy means ensuring law enforcement agencies at all levels cannot engage in dragnet-type information gathering activities.
SMM's snapshots delineate the ever-widening dragnet being used by Beijing to eliminate the excesses of past industrialization.
Now it has expanded its digital dragnet to include people who don't even live in Xinjiang or China.
But it is unlikely that he alone can shake off the dragnet stretched across Trump world by Democrats.
If there were Americans involved, they would have to assume they, too, were caught in the digital dragnet.
The dragnet went on widening until journalists, often to their patent dismay, were writing about writers: literary writers.
As of February 1, the dragnet had failed to track down more than 100 tourists from the region.
The feathery dragnet recorded radar blips from 353 vessels, which used radar to navigate and detect other boats.
There are precious few protections for Americans who get sucked up in NSA or FBI's foreign intelligence dragnet.
But in 1963, he was swept up in police dragnet that would nab the top leadership of the ANC.
The man accused of killing a Tennessee sheriff's deputy was captured Friday after a three-day dragnet, officials said.
But the dragnet has since widened to include secular and liberal activists at the forefront of the 2011 uprising.
The soundtrack hints at Vangelis's Blade Runner, the dialogue at Dragnet and porn with a dash of cultural theory.
Doping has been far too common, oversight far too uneven (see Kenya and Russia for holes in the dragnet).
The dragnet surveillance of Yahoo's email customers was initiated last spring and was confirmed to Reuters by former employees.
According to Mr Trump's lawyers, the subpoenas amount to a "dragnet" worthy of a law-enforcement agency, not Congress.
Now, just mentioning a target—rather than an identifier like their email address—could get you sucked into the dragnet.
Mueller is setting up a dragnet of obstruction, financial questions and every aspect of Trump's life and his associates lives.
But given the dodgy testimony of the two men running that dragnet, Americans should have more worries than ever before.
Now, all kinds of U.S. citizens and their communications can be swept into the dragnet — and it's deemed perfectly legal.
Ms. Gula, who is believed to be in her 40s, was caught up in that dragnet when she was arrested.
In Egypt, Sisi has thrown a dragnet over the entire country, arresting thousands and smothering most forms of free expression.
When a huge anti-corruption dragnet sweeps up a country's most popular politician, justice is served, but democracy is tested.
FATCA, enacted by Democrats in 2010, is an indiscriminate information dragnet requiring — under threat of extraterritorial sanctions — all non-U.
The more widely the use of encrypted communication spreads, the less useful the dragnet tools of the intelligence community become.
Silvis tells his parallel stories — of Huston's mad wanderings in the forest and DeMarco's reluctant dragnet — with finely tuned sensitivity.
Some found the revelation damning at a time when so many other politicians have been caught in the Odebrecht dragnet.
" She said the police had approached Mr. Lewis "to obtain a DNA swab as part of a race-biased dragnet.
The exhibition casts a wide net and gathers pieces from the past 16 years, catching several tasty morsels in its dragnet.
"Before it was more or less a dragnet and a witch hunt and now it's just a witch hunt," he said.
Three thousand law-enforcement agencies have some kind of agreement with Vigilant, giving clients the equivalent of a nation-wide dragnet.
Abedin's personal computer may have escaped the FBI's particularly gentle dragnet in the Clinton email case would come as little surprise.
Thomas Magnum and Higgins in Magnum, PI. Maddie and David in Moonlighting (swapping age difference for gender difference). Adam-12. Dragnet.
Beijing (CNN)China's former internet czar has become the latest senior official caught in President Xi Jinping's massive anti-corruption dragnet.
The gangs caught in the dragnet were not small-time operators, said Sarah Rodriguez, a spokeswoman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The dragnet-surveillance operation was spying on American citizens using a combination of wiretapping and mass-data collection through the internet.
Seven hours later, a dragnet of officers found him hiding under a tarp in a garage 22015 yards from the scene.
Now, the digital dragnet is expanding beyond Xinjiang's residents, ensnaring tourists, traders and other visitors — and digging deep into their smartphones.
Manafort got up in Mueller's dragnet, and Mueller's motive for prosecuting the case was an effort to secure cooperation from Manafort.
If it succeeds, it could vastly expand the dragnet that has already begun to transform immigration enforcement in the United States.
While he escaped the French and Belgian dragnet, it's unclear if he ever made it into territory held by Islamic State militants.
Without him, ordinary people around the world would still know little of the growing dragnet stifling the Internet's enormous potential for good.
Sisi cracked down on the Brotherhood and other Islamists after Mursi's removal and the dragnet widened to include opposition activists and journalists.
Separately, the UK government is facing a legal challenge to counterterrorism powers which utilize bulk collection of data as an investigatory dragnet.
But the broad sweep of individuals who were arrested that day in a dragnet has drawn heavy criticism from civil liberties groups.
So when police are investigating a person, they're not just collecting a dragnet of emails, phone numbers, business relationships, travel histories, etc.
We will never resolve our immigration problem by treating it as a criminal problem or utilizing a nationwide dragnet to rectify it.
" Welcome to the McCarthy era and its "lavender scare," which swept homosexuals into the wider dragnet intended for Communists and other "subversives.
The list of cities where leaders and police officials have vowed not to participate in a Trump dragnet is long and growing.
The problem is you also need trustworthy friends to help you stay ahead of the surveillance dragnet that's out to get you.
That could prevent more innocent, respectful developers from getting caught up in the dragnet as users panic to prune their app connections.
And it is hard to imagine that the technology would not spread to the dragnet of cameras that blanket London's streets eventually.
But poking holes in Iran's digital dragnet is a tactic to keep the protests going, not a strategy for transforming Iran's behavior.
They make empty statements to sell their products and then continue to build a for-profit, surveillance dragnet without oversight and accountability.
The digital rights activist group claims that Ring is creating a dragnet surveillance program in the private sphere, without proper regulatory oversight.
"The government cannot use the border as a dragnet to search through our private data," ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari said in a statement.
Now, they will gain access to the full content stash brought in by the NSA's surveillance dragnet, assuming that their request is accepted.
Of course, Chinese aluminum producers are going to pull every political lever at their disposal to try to escape Beijing's anti-pollution dragnet.
In the past, Walton had required end-to-end reports and IG reports to ensure problems with the metadata dragnet programs didn't persist.
Once inside an internet café, Rodriguez called again for advice on transmitting something without it getting caught in China's dragnet on international communications.
He also had a recurring role as Principal Stephen Chadwick on Joan of Arcadia, opposite Amber Tamblyn, and on Dragnet as Detective Latrell.
"Thirty officials from the Tyrol area supported by 50 officers from the rest of the country will start an intensive dragnet," he added.
Throughout the tightening Nazi dragnet, they are active dues-paying members of the Jewish community, and Hella is working in the youth office.
"It is increasingly clear to me that the NSA's implementation of reforms to the phone records dragnet has been fundamentally flawed," Wyden said.
The police wanted to question Munson and launched a national dragnet to find her (she and her mother was in Toronto on business).
What TAO is supposed to do, on the other hand, is targeted surveillance, going in with a digital harpoon rather than a dragnet.
She said it appeared the agency was targeting people who already had deportation orders against them, and then catching others in their dragnet.
Wouldn't Mr. King have objected as loudly, and with as much legitimacy, as American Muslim community leaders do today over dragnet surveillance operations?
His method, exemplified in Memphis, is to highlight an emotive crime, then deploy outrage as a dragnet to sweep up piffling, often nonviolent criminals.
The government was sharply criticized by privacy advocates after serving the dragnet warrants, two of which target political activists Lacy MacAuley and Legba Carrefour.
The law technically only authorizes the collection of communications belonging to foreign individuals, but citizens and permanent residents easily get swept into the dragnet.
Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said the shooter had evaded a police dragnet and was on the run, raising concerns of a follow-up attack.
But ultimately she decided to give it a shot; Merrie soon invited her to compete at DRAGnet, and she became the competition's first winner.
Photo: Carolyn Kaster (AP)Last year's wide-ranging and critical congressional hearings caught Facebook, Google, Twitter, Apple and other tech giants in their dragnet.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson cancelled that plan after widespread concern that American citizens would be caught in the dragnet and surveilled as well.
The warrant "allowed government agents to conduct a borderless dragnet search with no geographic limitation," wrote Levin's lawyer, J.W. Carney, in a court filing.
But the email that arrived on Tuesday — bearing the "Dragnet"-style subject line "71 Precinct Homicide (RMA# 19913-16)" — stood out from the rest.
He had visions of a massive dragnet: FBI agents amassing warrants on every known Facebook trafficker and rounding them up in one epic bust.
The political future of Ms. Rousseff has been thrown into doubt throughout the months of turmoil over the Petrobras investigation and its widening dragnet.
You catch your breath, reminded of the everyday reach of the Nazi dragnet, of what diligence it took to decompose the German-Jewish world.
The GOP needs to learn that it can't support a massive surveillance dragnet and then cry foul when one of its own is caught.
The passage of time has only increased the stakes in this case, as the Trump administration's dragnet picks up noncitizens at a growing rate.
The dragnet caught other minorities living in Xinjiang — Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Hui — and not just Muslims, but Christians and Buddhists of these ethnicities too.
Beijing (CNN)China's hugely successful period dramas could be facing increased scrutiny from the Communist Party and its ever-widening dragnet of cultural censorship.
"In addition to violating the privacy and civil liberties of travelers, these digital dragnet border search practices weaken our national and economic security," Wyden wrote.
The leaders of New York and several other "sanctuary" cities such as Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco (pictured) insist they will resist any such dragnet.
But the dragnet has since widened to include secular and liberal activists at the forefront of the uprising that ended Mubarak's 30 years in power.
John Lewis and an 22015-month old child have all been snared by the anti-terrorist dragnet at times, appearing on the No Fly List.
In February, authorities closed the Nadeem Center for the Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence and Torture and the dragnet has widened to include women's groups.
He and his bosses will turn off and round up migrant's burner phones for fear of cell-site simulators now hanging over la migra's dragnet.
Mr. Obama vastly expanded Secure Communities, a national dragnet that enlisted state and local law-enforcement officials to check the immigration status of everyone arrested.
Officials were asked to verify the identities even of people outside the country, showing how China is casting its dragnet for Uighurs far beyond Xinjiang.
If someone gets erroneously caught in the dragnet, will they remain in a database that could make them a target of increased surveillance for life?
Although those plaintiffs communicated less voluminously than Wikimedia, they had argued that their communications were surely captured, too, because the system acts like a dragnet.
And Iraqi Christians now living in the U.S. who supported President Trump's campaign are shocked to find themselves caught up in his widening immigration dragnet.
Each row in the document pertains to one main person and serves as a case study in how individuals are swept up in China's dragnet.
Also caught in the 2010 law's dragnet were almost all of New York City's hostels, according to Feargal Mooney, whose company arranged last week's tour.
Yitu has been linked to the technology dragnet currently in place in Xinjiang, where an estimated 1 million religious and ethnic minorities are currently interned.
Blue Apron isn't an advertising service, but it's still likely going to be caught up in the dragnet that Snap has dumped onto potential consumer IPOs.
With respect to national security leak investigations, this would make 2013 dragnet subpoena for the phone records of more than 100 Associated Press reporters look quaint.
Many people caught up in that dragnet are people who have lived for years in the United States, said Matt Cameron, an immigration attorney in Boston.
Countless cases—sometimes litigated by vigilant watchdogs like the libertarian Institute for Justice—show that innocent people are all too often swept up in this dragnet.
Officers from the anticorruption agency, known as the K.P.K., raided Mr. Setya's home in Jakarta on Wednesday night but did not find him, prompting a dragnet.
Photographs and an audio tape of crying children caught in the administration's dragnet stoked new outrage this week, leading members of both parties to express concern.
Even passengers traveling on award tickets are caught in the air passenger duty dragnet that adds billions of pounds to the British government's coffers each year.
When lawyers advised Bush that a proposed dragnet surveillance program exceeded the NSA's authority under the law, the president ordered the NSA to do it anyway.
So the only way they knew how to correct it is to go back to the dragnet method, which was unconstitutional, which led to Freddie Gray.
"The 5013th Circuit has opened the door for the major donors of thousands of charities to be exposed and chilled through California's dragnet," the petition said.
As Mr. Trump's chief law enforcer, he is likely to fully support efforts to enlist local law enforcement in a widening dragnet for people without papers.
As long as employers remain off the hook, a border wall and an expanded dragnet can only make temporary dents in the flows of undocumented immigrants.
This surveillance dragnet caught up everyone using the targeted tags, including emoji, in the area, even if they opted not to disclose their location to Twitter itself.
"No plausible explanation exists for a search warrant of this breadth, other than to cast a digital dragnet as broadly as possible," said EFF attorney Mark Rumold.
But the dragnet has since widened to include secular and liberal activists at the forefront of the 2011 uprising that ended Hosni Mubarak's 30 years in power.
People from minority groups with disproportionately high arrest rates are more likely to be in such databases, and so disproportionately likely to be targeted by dragnet surveillance.
But those efforts, such as New York City's morally indefensible racial dragnet program called stop-and-frisk, did as much damage as good in the black communities.
To date, prosecutors have been particularly tough on Manafort, lodging the most serious charges against him of anyone caught up in special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative dragnet.
Additionally, the regional police in Batangas put in place "Oplan Iron Curtain" -- a dragnet for suspects -- but Mercado said that there had been no results so far.
Scanning these today you may wonder how many of these were dangerous criminals; how many idealistic extremists; and how many innocents caught up in a widespread dragnet?
Jones claims he tested below the 0.08 legal limit and that a "countywide dragnet" was started because of a low number of DWI arrests in Travis County.
The Saudi government has said its dragnet followed an extensive investigation by a newly formed anti-corruption committee headed by the country's crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman.
But it is unlikely that he alone can shake off the dragnet stretched across Trump world by Democrats, most systematically by the House Judiciary Committee this week.
Under Trump, workplace raids have not only quadrupled but grown larger as Palantir's technology enables larger dragnet operations that arrest dozens or hundreds of people at once.
But, he said, the police were not looking for a specific accomplice who might have helped Mr. Abouyaaqoub avoid a police dragnet over the last four days.
Clearview, meanwhile, employs more than 3 billion pictures from social media and "millions of websites," according to its CEO, creating a dragnet that could encompass the world.
Reflecting the strides since "Dragnet" and "Adam-12," Falco's title character (a nickname for Abigail Thomas) isn't just distinctive because she's a woman, but also a lesbian.
But somehow Gulalai Ismail, a 32-year-old Pakistani women's rights activist on the run, managed to slip through the dragnet last month and escape to America.
While they allow police to track down a specific person (or at least their mobile device) almost instantly, they can only do so by casting a large dragnet.
Encryption technology has been the scapegoat of choice for Western politicians responding to terrorist attacks for multiple years now, despite governments also operating vast, dragnet digital surveillance programs.
After an international dragnet was launched in January 2015 following the thwarting of the Verviers plot, both he and Abaaoud escaped arrest in Greece and returned to Syria.
Such policies are likely to be effective at obstructing a massive dragnet; there are 5,800 federal deportation agents compared with more than 750,000 state and local police officers.
The disappeared include members of the Muslim Brotherhood but also civil society activists, journalists and members of the public who unwittingly become caught in the state security dragnet.
And Snowden's 2013 disclosures about the NSA's dragnet collection of U.S. citizens' electronic communications drove legislative reforms and heightened privacy protections for consumers to protect against warrantless surveillance.
His fingerprints were found in two apartments in Brussels in subsequent months, but he kept eluding the police dragnet, amid speculation that he might have escaped to Syria.
How is it possible that a majority of the House is voting for the dragnet surveillance bill – a law that probably goes against the European Human Rights Law?
Their dragnet has spread far beyond Russia: Facebook and Twitter recently took down accounts originating in China that had pushed messages meant to discredit protesters in Hong Kong.
Elkun himself is terrified that his 78-year-old mother, who he believes is not in great health, could be swept up in the dragnet by his actions.
In his review of Season 4 for The Times, Mike Hale compared the series to that paragon of Los Angeles cop shows, "Dragnet," but set in the present.
And these were all on Carter Page, but they also brought in a dragnet of everybody that Carter Page spoke to and possibly people that those people spoke to.
"It was during this period, like 2013, 2014, 2015, and all these people lived in this enclave," said Untitled Queen, the winner of the first DRAGnet cycle in 2012.
By last spring, when Pennsylvania roads were starting to feel like a dragnet for immigrants without papers, Ludvin Franco had mostly stopped getting behind the wheel of a car.
Abdeslam slipped through a police dragnet to return to Brussels after the Paris attacks, and though he is the target of an international manhunt, has not been seen since.
In a tough worded statement, Macri's security minister, Patricia Bullrich, said the government had been mislead, perhaps with the intention of buying the escapees time as the dragnet closed.
One day, he was caught up in a police dragnet looking for a black man who allegedly committed a crime, and at that time, any black man would do.
The conversation will address both the needs of those dealing with addiction to the dangers faced by populations caught up in the dragnet of global drug control policies and policing.
"Before it was more or less a dragnet and a witch hunt and now it's just a witch hunt," EFF senior staff attorney Mark Rumold told Gizmodo earlier this week.
This piece of legislation must be reformed in order to prevent dragnet surveillance, backdoor searches of phone and email records, and unlawful targeting of communities of color and immigrant communities.
While the most invasive apps identified in the investigation belonged to Chinese companies, one American-made app stood out for its dragnet data collection policy and high number of permissions.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the country's federal police force, has been using dragnet-style cell phone spy tools known as IMSI-catchers, or Stingrays, for more than a decade.
"The government cannot use the border as a dragnet to search through our private data," ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari said of the case, filed in the Massachusetts U.S. District Court.
Airing such a divisive political figure as Snowden sends a clear message to the incoming president that Twitter will not participate in dragnet government surveillance programs that bypass due process.
The plan has essentially served as a dragnet 1,000 miles south of the Texas border, catching hundreds of thousands of Salvadorans, Hondurans and Guatemalans en route to the United States.
The Paris limo driver who was arrested in the Kim Kardashian robbery dragnet has been released and was never even a suspect ... so claims the limo company that hired him.
The National Security Agency and other law enforcement organizations collect more data in their dragnet digital surveillance operations than can often be processed in a timely, meaningful way, according to Dunning.
On Thursday, Congress re-authorized warrantless surveillance initiatives under Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, rejecting reform proposals and instead expanding the scope of the dragnet for six years.
He engaged in two gunfights with security forces as he evaded a police dragnet and bragged about his acts to the driver of a taxi that he commandeered, prosecutor Heitz said.
The sprawling investigations by prosecutors and federal police, including the famed "Car Wash" dragnet centered on Brazil's state-run oil company Petrobras, have toppled business and political leaders across Latin America.
During the era of the American Revolution, British authorities abused this power to conduct dragnet searches of colonial homes and to seize people's private papers looking for evidence of political resistance.
Once again, Belgian security forces are engaged in a sweeping dragnet, and further raids are to be expected in neighborhoods of Brussels that have become increasingly infamous for their radicalized residents.
The government got the FISC to approve collection of what it claimed was only metadata off the telecom switches to replace the Internet dragnet part of President Bush's Stellar Wind program.
As we previously reported, Yaho's spring 2015 transparency report does not reflect an unusually high number data disclosures to the government, as might be expected from a dragnet email scanning program.
Given that understanding, the district attorneys need to take another swing at this problem, to expunge the records of others who may have been unjustifiably caught in the zero-tolerance dragnet.
The police have used it to create a powerful surveillance dragnet and profile racial minorities, giving rise to fears that China represents a future in which governments rule via digital authoritarianism.
A test of that willingness to agree could come on Monday, when Mr. Padilla is expected to introduce a resolution taking issue with Mr. Kobach's commission and its dragnet for data.
Since July 2015, hundreds of lawyers and rights activists have been swept up in a nationwide dragnet, as Mr. Xi seeks to stamp out a perceived threat to Communist Party rule.
One sign that ISIS members had found ways to slip through the dragnet around Raqqa came in a BBC report in October of a secret deal struck between ISIS and the SDF.
But the Obama administration took other steps, too, pressing the Mexicans to tighten their borders and to create what amounts to a migrant dragnet hundreds of miles south of the United States.
One of three inmates who escaped from a South Carolina prison was captured Sunday night after authorities launched a dragnet; but the other two inmates, both murder suspects, remained on the loose.
But privacy advocates say it includes too few protections to allow authorities to access private data or to prevent people who aren't suspected of committing crimes from getting caught in the dragnet.
They act more like a dragnet than a targeted surveillance tool, and one can imagine how many innocents may be surveilled when an IMSI catcher is deployed in a bustling city centre.
Critics have argued that innocent people's data is caught up in this dragnet, but law enforcement has been less than forthcoming owing to gag orders from the companies that provide the devices.
The Snowden revelations showed that the agency was engaging in dragnet surveillance of Americans' call records and had streamlined access to users' data on online services like Yahoo Mail and Google Docs.
The President predicted the expanded Democratic front this past weekend during his wild speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, offering a preview of how he will seek to slip the dragnet.
Paradoxically, the races for cinematography and live-action short are both caught up in this year's commercial-break dragnet, though the former would almost certainly be safe if the latter went untelevised.
He engaged in two gunfights with security forces as he evaded a police dragnet and bragged about his acts to the driver of a taxi that he commandeered, Paris prosecutor Remy Heitz said.
Watch VICE go backstage with queens from RuPaul's Drag Race: "I just noticed there was an emptiness with creativity and performance art happening in Brooklyn," Merrie Cherry said of why she started DRAGnet.
She's reintroducing contestants in the most recent cycle of DRAGnet, a drag competition she hosts where newer queens vie for a $200 prize and the opportunity to share her stage for three months.
Additionally, users don't have to worry that a massive government surveillance dragnet is sweeping up the private details of their lives to be stored in a secret database until the end of time.
The US Department of Homeland Security employs a high-tech dragnet at the border, replete with infrared cameras and spy drones to catch smugglers, and as a result, coyotes have become more vigilant.
Critics have accused Erdogan of using the purge to rid himself of opponents and say many with no links to the coup attempt or Gulen's movement have been caught up in the dragnet.
He has the same rights as any other American citizen, but this shouldn't set a precedent for how ordinary American citizens' communications are handled if they get caught up in a FISA dragnet.
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, for example, said she feared a "dragnet sweep" on the part of the government and she noted that cell phones have become an "appendage" for people in the modern era.
Ever since 22018, when at the urging of the Obama administration the Mexican authorities began to crack down on illegal migration, migrants have been ensnared in a vast dragnet along Mexico's southern border.
But Mr. Gao was one of hundreds of millions of rural migrants who move around, often slipping past city data checks, and he was not caught in the dragnet for fingerprints in Baiyin.
" And he recited a quote about him from a 1995 essay on civil rights historiography by Charles M. Payne: "Like the cop in 'Dragnet,' Garrow sticks to 'the facts, ma'am, just the facts.
But given her nine hours of testimony Tuesday, position at the center of an intensifying special counsel dragnet and other recent events, her explanation that other opportunities were beckoning is tough to swallow.
The subway turnstile — low enough to vault, ubiquitous enough to figure in the lives of millions of New Yorkers each day — has long served as a kind of dragnet for the Police Department.
People are usually willing to bend this belief when it comes to convicted criminals, but, until these "upgrades" happen, everyone who has made contact with police is potentially caught in the dragnet in Britain.
After Saturday night's shooting of the police van, Mr. Williams walked a block away and ordered Chinese food, even while emergency responders flooded the area and began a dragnet for him, the authorities said.
It's easily imagined that the police may run a dragnet in areas densely populated by immigrants and watch for keywords pertaining to under the table employment, family across the border, remittances, and so on.
Beyond the privacy implications, Wyden suggests that these aggressive policies could also discourage international business travel and distract U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) from its core mission with broad "digital dragnet" border searches.
Furthermore, I saw the chilling effect that government intrusion had on my work: Well-intentioned sources were afraid to talk to me or to meet, for fear they would be caught in a dragnet.
But for all the havoc wrought during the region's two days in a grip of fear and an interstate dragnet, the evidence collected is a reminder of how much worse it could have been.
Word of mouth made it a destination of choice for gastronomes in an era when tracking down what today is standard fare, like Italian parsley, would have required a dragnet of the city's greenmarkets.
Google's dragnet: One of our most popular articles over the weekend was about how investigators are using location information from the tech giant to find suspects and witnesses near crimes, sometimes snaring the innocent.
Not surprisingly, Pitino has expressed shock at Louisville's being caught in the F.B.I. dragnet, and again denied any knowledge of impropriety involving $19873,000 of Adidas that was to be funneled to a Louisville recruit.
Editorial Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, for years a fearsome figure for Arizona's Latinos, was convicted of criminal contempt this week for violating a court order to stop his dragnet harassment of immigrants for documentation.
In a 2018 letter to Romania's president, Giuliani wrote that Romania's anti-corruption drive had led to "excesses," and that there should be an amnesty for those caught up in the anti-corruption dragnet.
Image: China News via Wall Street JournalIn the US, advocates are generally opposed to police putting people into databases that don't differentiate between suspects and citizens, though China's dragnet approach has drawn headlines for years.
Their styles might have changed over the years, but the couple looked just as happy and in love as they did 30 years ago at the Hollywood premiere of Dragnet in 1987 (also pictured above).
Some Hindus have been caught in the dragnet, but Mr Shah says they do not need to worry, since the government has drafted a bill to make it easy for Hindu refugees to claim citizenship.
Except, as it turns out, the Anaheim police department had access to military-grade dragnet phone spying equipment, the kind that can suck up your phone's information from an airplane along with thousands of others.
Some have passed a dragnet through China's databases, which are teeming with raw statistics on the physical output of individual products: tonnes of steel, metres of silk, litres of beer, even kilowatts of solar cells.
In the future, Sproat suggested police should have to tighten their requests to cell phone companies, asking for information that more specifically targets possible suspects and does not create a dragnet for thousands of people.
In China, the government is building a frightening surveillance dragnet in broad daylight, stitching together facial recognition, fingerprint and other databases into an all-seeing eye aiming to closely watch more than a billion citizens.
If the measures proposed by CBP were to go into effect, there would be many more "Rajah's" unfairly swept up in the national security dragnet solely on the basis of religion and country of birth.
The Otto Warmbier North Korea Nuclear Sanctions and Enforcement Act that Congress recently passed and the $500 million court judgment in 2018 against North Korea for Mr. Warmbier's death bolster our license for this dragnet.
These investigations relied on a giant, and previously unknown, Google database eerily called Sensorvault, which "turn the business of tracking cellphone users' locations into a digital dragnet for law enforcement," as the Times put it.
Large pharmaceutical companies sometimes refer cases to the FDA or help the agency investigate targets, and some doctors ensnared in the dragnet say the investigations ultimately help drug makers charge top dollar in the United States.
Flashback: It has been 474 days since the FTC confirmed that it was investigating the company, following revelations that a researcher associated with consultancy Cambridge Analytica had swept up Facebook user data in a digital dragnet.
San Francisco has pulled a controversial measure to impose a new tax on startups filing to go public, partly because the first draft of the proposal swept too much of the local economy into its dragnet.
But critics of the program—Wikimedia among them—say that Upstream collection gathers virtually all international internet traffic and combs through it, violating the rights of American citizens who are caught up in the surveillance dragnet.
The government claims that Giwa houses Boko Haram suspects in transit to more established detention centers, but in fact, its detainees are just as likely to be displaced civilians caught in the army's counter-insurgency dragnet.
It was clear, though, that the Trump sentries caught some but not all the protesters who passed before them, and that they also ensnared a reporter, who had no plans to disrupt anything, in their dragnet.
They were looking for the two men who had gone into the bank, as well as the driver who dropped off and picked up the crew, and would potentially be caught up in the same dragnet.
This portrayal has served law enforcement — "Dragnet," for instance, was partly the result of police public relations efforts — and it arguably has shaped the attitudes of audiences, both in the living room and the jury box.
Wang warned sternly that district party bosses and governors would be held responsible if any confirmed or suspected cases were found at home after the dragnet ended on Wednesday, the state-run Changjiang Daily reported Tuesday.
Mr. Trump's federal force, especially if it re-enlists state and local law enforcement agencies in a widening immigration dragnet, threatens to return America to a disgraceful era of workplace raids, indiscriminate sweeps and mass arrests.
The NSA has also used the third-party doctrine to do mass surveillance, like Operation PRISM, its "dragnet" collection of phone records of both Americans and foreign nationals revealed by former contractor Edward Snowden in 2013.
Hundreds of Mursi supporters were killed in a single day and thousands were jailed, with the dragnet quickly widening to include secular activists who were at the forefront of the 2011 uprising but opposed Muslim Brotherhood rule.
More than 60,000 Turks from the military, judiciary, academia and civil service have been caught in the dragnet so far, being detained, dismissed from their position or placed under investigation, again over their suspected links to Gulen.
Such automated internet filters (whether policing speech, porn, or copyrighted material) not only routinely don't work very well, they tend to result in rampant collateral damage as legitimate content gets caught in the poorly-crafted automated dragnet.
But as far as the possibility that Rogers customer emails had been siphoned into a surveillance dragnet goes, "Given we don't have detailed information about the matter, we are not in a position to comment," Cohen wrote.
It was through that first cycle of Dragnet, of which Horrorchata was a judge, that they met Untitled Queen, who came to drag after dabbling in performance art while getting her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons.
A leaked email from Correctional Services Canada last year indicated that an unnamed, StingRay-like device was installed in an Ontario prison to monitor inmate communications, but also caught innocent people outside the facility in the dragnet.
Sure, the hippies are portrayed in a similar manner to that of Dragnet 1967, and the draft dodgers are portrayed as the immature young men they were, but there is no obvious disdain or contempt for anyone.
By a 2-1 vote, the same panel also ruled the plaintiffs lacked standing to challenge the NSA's alleged "dragnet" to intercept "substantially all" text-based communications to and from the United States while conducting Upstream surveillance.
I believe that Bloomberg still believes this year what he believed last year: that all those young black and brown boys and men caught up in his dragnet were simply unfortunate collateral damage in his righteous crusade.
But the government account rests largely on confessions from people suspected of being drug hit men swept up in a dragnet around the southern city of Iguala, where the students, who attended a rural teachers' college, disappeared.
Johnny Holmes, the famously tough prosecutor and longtime district attorney in Houston, told the newspaper last year that the initial dragnet of arrests appeared to be an overreach, given how many of the cases were later dismissed.
"Instead of sweeping into a regulatory dragnet the hundreds of millions of American consumers who place calls or send text messages from smartphones, the FCC should be targeting bad actors who bombard Americans with unlawful robocalls," he said.
The problem, say critics, is that to accomplish this on a large scale, sites like YouTube would have to rely on automated scanning algorithms, which would inevitably cause more legitimate content to be swept up in the dragnet.
In a December test of the dragnet in Guiyang, a city of 4.3 million people in southwest China, a BBC reporter was flagged for arrest within seven minutes of police adding his headshot to a facial recognition database.
Police had warned that Pappas could be armed and dangerous, and -- thanks to his law enforcement background -- might have access to police radio and tactical channels to monitor the dragnet police had cast to catch him, Acevedo said.
But as these people are caught in a deportation dragnet, they risk being sent to countries where the persecution threats they face are even greater than when they fled to the United States, asylum seekers and lawyers say.
On the hunt for one of the two brothers who placed bombs at the Boston Marathon earlier that week, the authorities asked everyone in the city and some surrounding towns to "shelter in place" during the vast dragnet.
DreamHost has so far refused to turn over this information, and for good reason: The indiscriminate "digital dragnet," as the Electronic Frontier Foundation has called it, may well violate the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches and seizures.
But rather than address this concentration of violence, police have by and large used sweeping dragnet policies — like New York City's stop-and-frisk strategy, which targeted entire communities, particularly black and brown ones, for more aggressive law enforcement.
Moreover, several experts consulted by Motherboard said that by dint of Rogers emails transiting and being stored on Yahoo's US servers, they would likely have been subject to any sort of system-wide email dragnet installed by US intelligence.
Meanwhile, another law is currently being implemented that may mean tax delinquents flying domestically could get caught up in the IRS dragnet: REAL ID — the antiterrorism measure that sets minimum standards for states that issue licenses and state identification.
At the same time, the scale of the dragnet has sent a tremor through the ranks of biomedical researchers, some of whom say ethnic Chinese scientists are being unfairly targeted for scrutiny as Washington's geopolitical competition with Beijing intensifies.
Davis speculates that the Axeman, determined by the police to be a career criminal named Joseph Mumfre who was shot and killed by one of his intended victims, actually slipped through the police dragnet and lived to kill again.
It is important to remember that racism can exist in the absence of malice, that this dragnet presumption of guilt, even if well intentioned, amounted to a systemic racism to which Bloomberg was not only apathetic, but zealous about.
That increases the chances to which this is being used for dragnet surveillance, for essentially monitoring the entire population in ways that aren't actually that helpful for keeping people safe, but are super helpful for keeping people in line.
Dulce Garcia, a DACA recipient from San Diego, said she rejected, in principle, any measure to protect her that would come in exchange for even slightly higher chances that her family members would be caught in the enforcement dragnet.
It's not all good news, though: Independence Day, Dragnet, Parenthood, and more will leave the service on November 193th — which means you now know exactly what to throw on the television to occupy your family during this year's Thanksgiving festivities.
Watch the VICE News documentary, Phone Hackers: Britain's Secret Surveillance: The devices are often criticized by privacy advocates for their dragnet-style approach of collecting information, in which information on all devices in the IMSI catcher's range is indiscriminately swept up.
Worth noting: Democrat Ron Wyden, a huge critic of the surveillance appartus, castigated Coats for backing off a pledge at his confirmation hearing to pursue data on how many Americans are caught up in the dragnet created by Section 702.
Hundreds of Mursi supporters were killed in a single day in August 2013 and thousands were jailed, with the dragnet quickly widening to include secular activists who were at the forefront of the 2011 uprising but opposed Muslim Brotherhood rule.
Security Risk BRUSSELS — As a dragnet aimed at Islamic State operatives spiraled across Brussels and into at least five European countries on Friday, the authorities were also focusing on a narrower but increasingly alarming threat: the vulnerability of Belgium's nuclear installations.
The infamous conspiracy theorist and InfoWars founder claims there's a "dragnet" to catch people driving drunk in the Texas county where he was arrested early Tuesday morning, apparently because the county's been criticized for its low number of drunk driving arrests.
But as his administration has expanded its dragnet under a series of executive orders, ICE has locked up thousands of people like Vasquez – people with little or no criminal history, with deep roots in their communities, who present little flight risk.
Salah Abdeslam, 28, who defied a dragnet of French and Belgian police for more than four months as he hid in his hometown haunts after fleeing the attacks in Paris, poked a finger again at the authorities, this time in court.
Tracking Phones, Google Is a Dragnet for the Police By: Jennifer Valentino-DeVries These two companion pieces are as shocking as well reported by veteran Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, someone who was writing about digital surveillance way before many cared about it.
There are many wrong ways to tackle that problem, including the ridiculously wide "stop-and-frisk" dragnet set by Mr. Bratton's predecessor Raymond Kelly, which harmed hundreds of thousands of innocent young men in the pursuit of a fractional subset of violent criminals.
If it errs on the side of caution while stripping monetization first and making users appeal to get it back, it has a chilling effect on people who are doing things YouTube explicitly allows and supports — but get caught in the dragnet anyway.
You can't detest racial-dragnet-policy stop-and-frisk policing as not only morally abhorrent but thoroughly unconstitutional and risk the ascendance of a man who on Wednesday reportedly suggested that he would consider using stop-and-frisk more across the nation.
He acknowledged that his work morphed into a more general dragnet for dirt on Mr. Trump's targets but said that it was difficult to separate those lines of inquiry from his original mission of discrediting the origins of the special counsel's investigation.
Several lawmakers pressed officials on the number of Americans swept up in the dragnet — a number the ODNI says is infeasible to produce because it would divert critical resources and endanger privacy by asking trained analysts to sift through U.S. people's data.
While the nation has been exposed in recent years to police abuses involving the fatal shooting of citizens, particularly black Americans, the new report presents something no less insidious: dragnet interrogations routinely conducted below the radar as a supposed tool of criminal justice.
Police, for example, are more likely to be deployed in minority neighborhoods (in part because they have higher crime rates) and resort to dragnet tactics like "stop and frisk" that focus on stopping, interrogating, and locking up as many people as possible.
The photographer Daniel Berehulak and I decided to take a narrative approach to tell the story of a crackdown by Mexican authorities — who deported some 170,000 Central Americans last year — and how it forced migrants to take much more dangerous routes to avoid the dragnet.
Facebook announced it was shutting down Onavo a year ago — in the face of rising controversy about its use of the VPN tool as a data-gathering business intelligence dragnet that's both hostile to user privacy and raises major questions about anti-competitive practices.
Thiel, a Trump-supporter, has funded Silicon Valley companies SpaceX and Airbnb, and is a principal investor in Palantir, a data-mining company used by US banks and police departments to create a "digital dragnet" of individuals designed to track and potentially incriminate them.
It took more than a decade to learn that the Justice Department was interpreting a provision of the law so broadly that the government routinely collected the calling data of essentially every American, even though this dragnet was all but useless in uncovering terrorist plotting.
Lawmakers have expressed concern about the number of Americans swept up in the dragnet — a number the director of National Intelligence says is infeasible to produce because it would divert critical resources and endanger privacy by asking trained analysts to sift through U.S. people's data.
In response to the news that law enforcement used GEDmatch to find DeAngelo, the website released a statement Friday cautioning users to be aware that when they consent to release their DNA to build profiles, they can be used for this kind of dragnet.
China's leaders expanded a mass roundup of people possibly sickened with the coronavirus on Thursday, widening their dragnet well beyond the epicenter of the outbreak to at least two more cities in what the government has called a "wartime" campaign to stamp out the epidemic.
Wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on a border wall Mexico will never pay for, and punishing cities that do not want their local police forces forced to serve as President Trump's deportation dragnet, does nothing to fix our immigration system or keep Americans safe.
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An anti-graft crusade promoted by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has led to swathes of arrests of politicians, but critics say the economy is suffering as vital projects are put on hold by officials fearful of being caught up in the dragnet.
But defense lawyers for the man charged in the killing, Chanel Lewis, are now contending that the police swept up hundreds of black men in a "race-biased dragnet" before settling on him — information they argue should have been turned over to them before trial.
The film's other key characters are Sergeant Jack Vincennes (Kevin Spacey), a mini-celebrity thanks to his consulting gig on the Dragnet-esque TV cop show Badge of Honor, and Officer Bud White (Russell Crowe), a brutish attack dog with a particular taste for wife-beaters.
According to privacy experts interviewed by the Journal, because the data is publicly available for purchase, the government practices don't appear to violate the law — despite being what may be the largest dragnet ever conducted by the U.S. government using the aggregated data of its citizens.
At its height, hundreds of thousands of people — mostly young black and Latino men — were being caught in this dragnet, many being stopped and frisked multiple times for no reason other than the hue of their skin, texture of their hair and ZIP code of their home.
Bushwig and DRAGnet just celebrated their fifth anniversaries, and the revived scene has given way to a larger alt-drag movement that's taken root in places like Miami (whose answer to Bushwig is Wigwood, named after the city's Wynwood neighborhood), Austin, Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco.
The search came within weeks of similar raids at several cultural venues and amid a vast security dragnet in downtown Cairo — part of an extraordinary effort by the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi to prevent any protest commemorating the uprising that started on Jan.
Despite ICE's extensive attempts to keep the financial terms of government contracts with private companies secret, the existence of guaranteed minimums was revealed in Banking on Detention: Local Lockup Quotas and the Immigrant Dragnet, published last year by Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Christine Clarke, the civil rights justice director of Legal Services NYC, said it was a crucial moment for immigrants who might be deterred from reporting domestic abuse if contact with the police put them at risk of being caught in the deportation dragnet emanating from Washington.
A secret court order also revealed that Verizon was required to give the NSA data on every call going through its systems on an "ongoing, daily basis," meaning the warrant authorized a wide surveillance "dragnet," unlike most warrants which let the government collect information on specific targets.
The letter, which was also sent to the New York Daily News, claimed that police initially suspected two white men of the crime, then went on to conduct what defense lawyers described as a "race-biased dragnet," obtaining DNA from more than 300 black men in the area.
Despite a city-wide dragnet, the case hit a dead end until Ephraim Littlefield, a medical-school janitor who lived next to Webster's college study, hacked his way into the vault under the professor's rooms and unearthed a pelvis, thigh and lower leg—presumed to be the missing man's.
In a dragnet of journalists who were purported to cover the far-right and who were allegedly doing a terrible job of doing so, Lenihan included two academics, several publicly-identified activists (including Chelsea Manning), a hip-hop artist, and one labor-reporter-slash-heavy-metal-music-critic—me.
Similar giveaway programs have also been initiated by the police departments of Livonia, MI; Mahwah, NJ; Newark, NJ; and Palmdale, CA. Activist groups like Fight for the Future have criticized Ring for creating a privatized, unregulated dragnet surveillance program, and called for cities to stop partnering with the company.
While Iran could try and charter tankers from the international market, the growing dragnet of sanctions, lack of insurance and financing mean few shipping companies would want to breach the restrictions imposed by Washington given fears of heavy fines or being cut off from the U.S. financial system.
"This proposal invites dragnet surveillance that history shows will disproportionately harm immigrants, communities of color, and activists, and it invites profit-seeking firms to violate Facebook and Twitter rules designed to keep users safe," said Matt Cagle, an attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California.
And, yet, somehow that entire massive structure, including the mass electronic surveillance dragnet operated by the NSA, which we are told is the key to detecting and preventing terrorist attacks, produced absolutely nothing that would have given us a clue as to Al-Shamrani's ideological leanings or extremist tendencies?
While she has rejected the government's accusation of corruption against her husband and poignantly called "anti-corruption" a "tainted" term in China, she has refrained from naming President Xi Jinping, whose anti-graft dragnet has caught more than a million officials since he took power in late 2001.
Additionally, users will receive live notifications on the whereabouts of US Border Patrol agents stationed over the high-tech dragnet that now defines one of the most expensive borders in the world, where a constellation of ground sensors, hidden cameras, and spy drones feeds into an expanding borderland-industrial complex.
Image 2 of 2 BEIRUT – White Helmets volunteers trapped in southern Syria after the government seized areas they operated in said Wednesday they live in fear of being caught in the dragnet of the government, which considers them one of its staunchest enemies, and are desperately seeking a way out.
If a protest with fairly limited acts of violence -- violence the overwhelming majority of protesters did not partake in -- means that federal law enforcement can cast a wide dragnet to scoop up the information of more than 1 million people, then fewer people will protest (or even discuss doing so online).
The technology is controversial for a number of reasons, chief among these are concerns that protesters and activists who have been arrested at an action may be subject to extensive, and likely illegal phone searches - other people's information will surely get caught up in this dragnet, creating a civil liberties nightmare.
In the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Lawson saw a newly-formed DHS ramp up its southwest dragnet: a border-industrial surveillance complex replete with ground sensors, unarmed spy drones, and controversial eavesdropping tech known as StingRays and TriggerFish that surreptitiously gather phone location data by emulating cell towers.
His younger brother Salah, whose name was on rental documents for a car found outside the Bataclan concert hall where most of the Paris victims were killed, is one of the most wanted men in Europe after escaping to Belgium and eluding a dragnet in Molenbeek, where he lived with his two brothers.
Some privacy-minded lawmakers in the Senate are also demanding that the government disclose an estimate of the number of Americans swept up in the dragnet — a number Coats says is infeasible to produce because it would divert critical resources and endanger privacy by asking trained analysts to sift through Americans' data.
Last year, Castro wrote a report outlining how concerns about pervasive US surveillance, such as the electronic dragnet revealed by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, erodes the competitiveness of the American cloud computing industry and could cost it at least $35 billion in lost foreign business between 2013 and this year.
Elizabeth Joh, a law professor at the University of California Davis who specializes in policing and technology, told me that while police secrecy is nothing new, the kind of dragnet surveillance that Baltimore has engaged in—where officers aren't necessarily looking for one particular person, or conducting a specific investigation—raises serious political issues.
The pairing of the two exhibitions invites viewers to search for parallels between US national security efforts more than 70 years ago and today: How does the forced relocation of virtually all ethnic Japanese people residing in the US during World War II resemble the dragnet of the current anti-terrorism apparatus around the globe?
It has become increasingly apparent that Beijing's dragnet extends far beyond the billionaire, Xiao Jianhua, and is now closing in on dozens, if not hundreds, of his employees in one of the most far-reaching crackdowns on a private Chinese conglomerate in the nearly four decades since the country began to embrace free markets.
While there's no sign that either scenario is in the cards for Hong Kong, both are indicative of what Hong Kongers fear -- a shift away from rule of law and the use of dragnet surveillance not just to catch people mid-crime, but to root out undesirable actions, relationships and ideas, even if they're legal on paper.
But he also presided over a massive spike in drone warfare, and in 2013, a former NSA contractor exposed just how far the dragnet of the national security state reached, having grown under both Republican and Democratic administrations: into the lives of tens of millions of people whose phone calls and emails and other communications were effectively logged by government spies.
From hitting the brakes on police reform, to praising Nancy Reagan's "Just Say No" campaign, to stressing the supposed moral failings of drug users, the attorney general has signaled a return to the policies and rhetoric of zero tolerance, dragnet deportation, mandatory minimums, and mass incarceration as the backbone of the Justice Department's strategy to curb violent crime — which Sessions likes to say is on the rise.
During the Obama administration, politicians from both sides of the aisle conceded that the war on drugs had not, in fact, solved violent crime, and, rather, led to soaring prison populations, costing the federal government about $80 billion annually (an estimated $1 trillion when you account for the fiscal burden on welfare as a result of mass incarceration),disproportionately pulling poor, vulnerable or minority communities into the dragnet of the criminal justice system.
It does makes sense that certain polleros and coyotes would now be concerned about authorities potentially monitoring cell activity, insofar as the specter of la migra's dragnet does loom large as guides like Juan cross migrants over the border and into the US. And what he and Comanche tell us about pollos' phones being confiscated isn't far off from we've heard of migrant's phones sometimes being turned off and temporarily held by polleros and coyotes, who then return the phones to their clients after the crossing is complete.
Ron WydenRonald (Ron) Lee WydenWyden blasts FEC Republicans for blocking probe into NRA over possible Russia donations Wyden calls for end to political ad targeting on Facebook, Google Ex-CIA chief worries campaigns falling short on cybersecurity MORE (D-Ore.) and Rand PaulRandal (Rand) Howard PaulGraham promises ObamaCare repeal if Trump, Republicans win in 2020 Conservatives buck Trump over worries of 'socialist' drug pricing Rand Paul to 'limit' August activities due to health MORE (R-Ky.) introduced legislation that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching digital devices of Americans trying to reenter the U.S.  "The government cannot use the border as a dragnet to search through our private data," ACLU attorney Esha Bhandari said in a statement announcing the suit.

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