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FBI secretly creates Internet police

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The FBI was rather public with its recent demands for backdoor access to websites and Internet services across the board, but as the agency awaits those secret surveillance powers, they're working on their own end to have those e-spy capabilities. In a testimony before Congress last year, then general counsel of the FBI, Valerie Caproni, told lawmakers, "In order to enforce the law and protect our citizens from threats to public safety, it is critically important that we have the ability to intercept electronic communications with court approval."
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