The DEA Is Skipping Warrants and Buying Data from Rogue Employees
CYBER
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4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
In America, no one can protect you from a transportation employee being paid off by the feds.
The Drug Enforcement Agency has a single remit: to prosecute America’s long-failed war on drugs. Joseph Cox is on today’s episode of Cyber to talk about one its shadier practices and the senators who want answers from the Department of Justice. It turns out that the DEA has been paying Amtrak and commercial package companies to act as informants and supply data on customers without having to get a warrant.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The DEA Bought Customer Data from Rogue Employees Instead of Getting a Warrant
The 'Insanely Broad' RESTRICT Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok
Here is the FBI’s Contract to Buy Mass Internet Data
Cops Sue Afroman for 'Emotional Distress' After He Made Music Videos of Botched Raid
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| 0:00.0 | What are you rolling first when it drops? |
| 0:02.8 | What's the first thing you're going to be leveling? |
| 0:05.8 | I'm going to be leveling a rogue because that was not available in Diablo 3. |
| 0:10.7 | Right. |
| 0:10.9 | And I've played every class, basically, in Diablo 3, I think. |
| 0:15.1 | Except the Wich Doctor, because they suck. |
| 0:17.0 | Do they? |
| 0:17.8 | They just basically, like, the Necromancer made them kind of pointless |
| 0:21.9 | I'm not sure why they suck a YouTube I watch said they suck |
| 0:25.3 | so I have to follow it now fair enough |
| 0:27.0 | already you're ready I tried to play one |
| 0:29.1 | I tried to play one briefly it wasn't it wasn't for me |
| 0:31.5 | yeah let's go you want to talk about the DEA etc |
| 0:34.2 | you ready to do this |
| 0:35.1 | it's the same thing |
| 0:37.1 | okay the DEA, etc. You ready to do this? It's the same thing. |
| 0:46.9 | Tadden, it's got the code it's going to launch. |
| 0:51.2 | It's a unit system. |
| 0:52.7 | I know this. |
| 0:56.9 | It's how all the files of all whole park. It tells her everything. |
| 1:02.4 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. Eagle One. The package is being delivered. |
| 1:10.0 | Hello out there on the internet. I am Matthew Galt, and this is Cyber. In America, no one can protect you from a transportation employee |
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