Secret US spy program targeted Americans' cellphones
Cellphone Privacy,Cybersecurity,Justice Department,Justice
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The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of cellphones through fake communications towers deployed on airplanes, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that is snagging large number of innocent Americans, according to people familiar with the operations.
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