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Court Says Trump Can't Use Leaks To Justify Spying On Journalists' LinkedIn DMs

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Slashdot FIRST 43m ago Court Says Trump Can't Use Leaks To Justify Spying On Journalists' LinkedIn DMs
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Trump administration's fight to stop suspected leaks of top-secret military information on LinkedIn can't sweep in "a vast number of confidential sources" of random journalists "who have no conceivable relationship" to the Department of Justice's investigation, an appeals court ruled (PDF) Tuesday. The order came after the DOJ asked LinkedIn to turn over 18 months of communications from targeted journalists who collectively published mor