FBI requests for records under Patriot Act have increased 1,000% in just four years; Update: Data-mining goes deeper than thought?

June 12, 2013

It’s not just the number of requests, it’s the scope of them. They’re not demanding records related to particular investigations anymore, they’re demanding huge troves of records on random Americans for data-mining purposes, the same thing Patriot Act co-author Jim Sensenbrenner complained about a few days ago but somehow didn’t foresee in 2001.

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