How US Spies Secretly Track You Through Travel Companies

A new article by Forbes explains how US spies used the All Writs Act of 1789 to secretly track you through travel companies.

According to Forbes magazine, the US government utilized a 233-year-old law to order two large global travel companies to track down a Russian national so he might be detained and extradited. The outlet filed a lawsuit in order to access the court records, with the help of privacy advocates who have condemned such orders as secretive and open to abuse.

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