Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by Areading314 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @11:53AM (#19329614)

This is terrible, but the headline is exaggerating: this only affects 50 people relating to a specific issue, not all journalists in the US.

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by gizmo385 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:52PM (#19330263)

Sure it only affects 50 people /now/, but this kind of a thing is really slippery slope. What's to stop the application of this process to other issues that the government would rather journalists not be looking into?

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by nerdponx on Thursday March 07, 2019 @12:21PM (#19329901)

No it's not. The headline never says "all", you added that. The fact that the number is greater than 0 is a problem.

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by Areading314 on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:14PM (#19331156)

I disagree, CBP targeting people who frequently cross the border for extra scrutiny, some of whom happen to be journalists, is a far cry from "the US" tracking "journalists" in general. It is an alarmist headline

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Re:Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Throu... by viivaux on Thursday March 07, 2019 @02:19PM (#19331215)

You're reading the headline wrong.

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