The surveillance allegedly circumvented laws against spying on domestic targets by mobilizing foreign agencies as part of the international ‘Five Eyes’ apparatus.
The new surveillance provision will cover laptops, cars, phones, and other devices, and allow the geolocation of suspects in crimes punishable by at least five years' imprisonment.
'The government apparently misled the Court by omission, failing to inform it, and failing to inform the aggrieved journalists, that the government had already obtained the contents of privileged emails from Project Veritas’ cloud computing provider.'