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Spying On Muslims In The USA

FBI Spies on Student, Retrieves GPS Device:

Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old student and U.S.-born citizen found a GPS tracking device on his car. A friend posted pictures of the device, which resulted in the FBI coming by Afifi's Santa Clara, Calif., apartment to retrieve the surveillance equipment. It seems the FBI was tracking Afifi's movements, taking advantage of a recent controversial 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of warrantless GPS tracking Ref. Source 4

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You're Going to Need a Warrant For That, Officer:

Last year Yasir Afifi, a 20-year-old U.S.-born citizen, found a strange device attached to his car. When he posted a photo of it online, the FBI showed up at his home two days later. Ref. Source 8

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FBI Turns Off Thousands of GPS Devices After Supreme Court Ruling:

These devices were often stuck underneath cars to track the movements of the car owners. In U.S. V. Jones, the Supreme Court ruled that using a device to track a car owner without a search warrant violated the law. Ref. Source 5

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Judge Says, Ok To Spy On Muslims: Judge sides with FBI in Muslim spying suit:

A US federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the FBI over the agency's controversial practice of spying on California Muslims, arguing the disclosure of a potentially unconstitutional domestic spy program might reveal sensitive state secrets. Ref. Source 2

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Muslim spying led to no leads, terror cases:

In more than six years of spying on Muslim neighborhoods, eavesdropping on conversations and cataloguing mosques, the New York Police Department's secret Demographics Unit never generated a lead or triggered a terrorism investigation, the department acknowledged in court testimony unsealed late Monday. Ref. Source 9