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FBI Responds To ACLU GPS Tracking Complaint

Posted by samzenpus on from the for-your-eyes-only dept.

Nerdolicious writes "Ars Technica reports that the ACLU has received a response from the FBI after a formal legal complaint was filed to release documents related to warrantless GPS tracking data. But, as you can see from the two memos the ACLU posted to its website, they have unsurprisingly been redacted to uselessness, consisting almost entirely of large black blocks covering full pages."

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  1. This is wrong. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    What the FBI does is wrong.
    And they know it, that is why they hide it.

    Inform your congressman.

    1. Re:This is wrong. by sumdumass · · Score: 5, Informative

      Congress can actually conduct a public hearing on the matter in which the results minus names of targets could become public information through means other then the FBI.

      They can also do a private hearing if the subject is considered a matter of national security then release more of the information through leaks or bringing it up on the floor of congress.

      So while you are right in that you go to court over an agency violating existing laws, you can still go to congress to get the answers you are looking for (provided congress is willing to take the matter up).