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The FBI’s new tactic: Catching suspects with push alerts
The cellphone feature allows a technique for catching suspected kidnappers and pedophiles. It also fuels fear of a “privacy nightmare” as abortion is criminalized.
Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the Justice Department, said, “After determining that non-content push notification metadata may help arrest offenders or stop ongoing criminal conduct, federal law enforcement investigators fully comply with the U.S. Constitution and applicable statutes to obtain the data from private companies.” In chats with an unidentified international law enforcement agent and an undercover FBI operative, known as an “online covert employee,” Aspinwall had shared explicit photos and videos and said he had sexually abused children known to him while they slept, the affidavit alleged. But in three of the four cases reviewed by The Post, Apple and Google handed over the datawithout a court order — probably as a result of the requests being made on an emergency, expedited or exigent basis, which the companies fulfill under different standards when police claim a threat of imminent harm.
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