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September 23, 2020

Federal Agents Tapped Cellphones of Portland Protesters
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The Nation magazine is reporting federal officials with the Justice
Department and Homeland Security have intercepted the phone
communications of protesters in Portland. The Nation reports the
surveillance involved cellphone cloning, where the government steals a
phone's unique identifiers and copies them to another device in order to
intercept the communications received by the original device. Oregon
Senator Jeff Merkley has called for a full investigation. He wrote on
Twitter, "The Trump admin has treated the people of Portland like enemy
combatants. These tactics-like cell phone cloning to spy on
protestors-are unacceptable in America."


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