dea
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DEA Agent Who Stole Bitcoin During Silk Road Investigation Pleads Guilty
One of the two US government officials charged with some shady dealings during the investigation of Silk Road pleaded guilty today. Carl Force used to work for the DEA and during the course of his investigation was doing things that might even make the darknet blush.
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US Authorities Will Pay For Catfishing Drug Dealers With Stolen Facebook Pics
In case snooping wasn’t enough, the US government is also neck-deep in creeptastic digital impersonation schemes. The Justice Department has agreed to pay a woman $US134,000 for stealing her personal information to set up a fake Facebook profile in her name so that DEA agents could catfish drug dealers.
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The NSA Made Its Own Google To Help Share Your Data With Cops
Well, here’s timely NSA revelation for you: The Intercept reports that the spy agency built a “Google-like” search engine for its seemingly bottomless cache of data on persons of interest. This tool allows the spy agency to share over 850 billion records with nearly two dozen US government organisations, including the FBI and the DEA.