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Brickbat: Carry Me Back

Charles Oliver | 10.31.2014 6:00 AM


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Five police agencies in southeast Virginia have been collecting and sharing telephone records, since 2012. Wired reports the agencies have obtained some of the data from phone companies through subpoenas. And some of it has been taken from phones taken from people they have arrested.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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