The Federal Bureau of Investigation may have conducted as many as 3.4 million searches of Americans' elecronic data without a warrant last year. The report doesn't allege that the FBI was illegally or improperly searching American data, but still could alarm members of Congress over privacy concerns. The Federal Bureau of Investigation may have conducted as many as 3.4 million searches of Americans' elecronic data without a warrant last year. Senior Biden administration officials told the paper that the actual number of searches is likely far lower. Friday's report marked the first time a U.S. intelligence agency gave a count of how much American data the FBI is looking at through Section 702.

Source: Daily Mail April 30, 2022 04:06 UTC