
“The government’s response (PDF), filed on September 30th, is a heavily redacted opposition arguing that when law enforcement can monitor one person’s information without a warrant, it can monitor everyone’s information, ‘regardless of the collection’s expanse.’ Notably, the government is also arguing that no one other than the company that provided the information—including the defendant in this case—has the right to challenge this disclosure in court. The United States government designated al-Shabaab—which means ‘The Youth’—a terrorist group in 2008, but the FBI’s extensive wiretapping of Moalin started about two months before that.”
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