(n.) A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The other challenges the very concept that dragnet surveillance can be a stable part of a privacy-respecting system of limited government.
(2) Ulbricht has denied his involvement in Silk Road, or that he was ever its administrator, but the prospect of a dragnet operation to bring in other dealers following his arrest will still make any of the nearly 960,000 registered users with the site – 30% of whom were in the US and Brits being the second biggest contingent – very nervous.
(3) The loss of Section 215 will deprive the NSA of the legal pretext for its bulk domestic phone records dragnet.
(4) It may be "more convenient" for the NSA to conduct a phone-records dragnet, Udall said, but "convenience alone cannot justify" the effort.
(5) A US court has charged Snowden with violating the Espionage Act, for disclosing the programmes which he described as a "dragnet mass surveillance that puts entire populations under sort of an eye that sees everything even when it's not needed".
(6) We’re seeing the United States, and other countries in the five eyes alliance, breaking new ground on how to intrude on the private lives of both legitimate targets and everyone else who’s caught up in the dragnet surveillance.
(7) And now that that secrecy has been lifted to some degree, we now know precisely who is being surveilled in some of the dragnet policies of the NSA, and those people can now challenge those policies.
(8) Once any investigation is completed, the Department of Justice could, if it chose, take civil legal action to put a stop to the controversial surveillance dragnet.
(9) EFF's long running case challenging dragnet spying, Jewel v NSA, which deals with the larger issue of the NSA accessing entire internet streams of telecommunications companies like AT&T without a warrant, is also set to heat up this summer.
(10) The ability of the NSA to track such data by country appeared to undermine assurances given to Wyden and his committee colleague, Mark Udall, that the NSA was unable to even estimate how many Americans its surveillance dragnets had swallowed up.
(11) Overwhelmingly, the bill’s opponents cited the prospect of a domestic terrorist attack from the Islamic State (Isis) as a motivator for their vote, even though not even the NSA continues to argue that the phone-data dragnet would prevent one.
(12) Collecting “ phone records of law-abiding citizens ” as none of the government’s “damn business” is just one of the NSA’s dragnets , the one that exclusively concerns Americans, and the one where a consensus for rollback already exists .
(13) Photograph: Rex If Messina Denaro, the last of Sicily's notorious fugitive bosses, feels comfortable name-checking the 15th-century head of the Spanish Inquisition, it is also a reflection of the cultured side of a criminal who has used his sharp intelligence to avoid a police dragnet for 21 years.
(14) While most considered the end of the NSA’s bulk domestic phone data dragnet significant enough to merit support, they lamented that the bill voted on Tuesday night no longer prevented the NSA or FBI from warrantlessly sifting through international communications databases for Americans’ identifying information , and that a public advocate created on the Fisa Court would have been insufficiently empowered.
(15) Two prominent Senate critics of the NSA's dragnet surveillance have challenged the agency's assertion that the spy efforts helped stop "dozens" of terror attacks .
(16) There is a huge difference between legal programs, legitimate spying, legitimate law enforcement — where individuals are targeted based on a reasonable, individualized suspicion — and these programs of dragnet mass surveillance that put entire populations under an all-seeing eye and save copies forever.
(17) When it became necessary to wrap that warrantless data dragnet in the language of existing law, the NSA’s lawyers crafted arguments for why a Patriot Act provision about collecting business records “relevant” to a terrorism investigation authorised the collection of all Americans’ records, relevant to an ongoing investigation or not, and justified email data collection using statutes about phone wiretaps.
(18) Left unspoken on Thursday was the fate of Snowden, the former NSA contractor whose disclosures prompted the administration to restrict its surveillance dragnets.
(19) Like Stingrays, and the NSA's phone dragnet before them, the militarization of America's local cops is a phenomenon that's only now getting widespread attention.
(20) Surveillance reformers, fresh off a week of tenuous victories, have vowed to ensure there are further overhauls to the National Security Agency’s vast dragnets after a new report detailed another stretch of legal authority by the US government to stop malicious hackers.
Trawl
Definition:
(v. t.) To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
(n.) A fishing line, often extending a mile or more, having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it. It is used for catching cod, halibut, etc.; a boulter.
(n.) A large bag net attached to a beam with iron frames at its ends, and dragged at the bottom of the sea, -- used in fishing, and in gathering forms of marine life from the sea bottom.
Example Sentences:
(1) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
(2) Trawling through the private telephone conversations of royals, politicians and celebrities in the hope of picking up scandalous gossip is not seen as legitimate news gathering and the techniques of entrapment which led to the recent Pakistani match-fixing scandal , although grudgingly admired in this particular case, are derided as manufacturing the news.
(3) News International has carried out a huge trawl of emails sent internally and externally, resulting in a number of arrests in police investigations.
(4) In southern California, FBI informant Craig Monteilh trawled mosques posing as a Muslim and tried to act as a magnet for potential radicals.
(5) It followed the Guardian's revelations about GCHQ's data-trawling techniques which were detailed in papers leaked by the whistleblower Edward Snowden.
(6) Detectives are still trawling through 9,200 pages of mainly handwritten material seized from Mulcaire, who was convicted of intercepting voicemail messages in January 2007, along with the News of the World journalist Clive Goodman.
(7) Chaired by Lord Grabiner and reporting to senior News Corp executives in New York, the MSC is trawling through 300m internal emails and passing on information about suspected illegal activity by journalists to Scotland Yard.
(8) Cameron disclosed that he will be consulting former Labour cabinet ministers on the release of the papers, adding that he had asked the cabinet secretary, Sir Gus O'Donnell, to trawl through all the papers to see what else should be published.
(9) HMRC obtained this data in 2010 and appointed a team of more than 300 tax officials to trawl through the evidence.
(10) Led by Commander Steve Rodhouse, Operation Connect is trawling the Scotland Yard intelligence bank, and information from local authorities, schools and health authorites, to produce a centralised database of the most harmful gang members.
(11) A cursory trawl reveals a long list of employment tribunals and strikes by low-paid workers in these outsourcing companies.
(12) However, the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society said electronic pingers could already be used under current EU nature laws, which also protect porpoises from trawling, dredging, pile driving and noise from military sonars.
(13) As they continued to trawl through water and rubble for the missing, on Monday police said they had reduced the number of people believed to have died in the Utøya massacre from 86 to 68 – the vast majority of them teenagers taking part in a leftwing political summer camp.
(14) In fact, Hussain worked for the FBI as an informant trawling mosques in hope of picking up radicals.
(15) The trawl for fresh talent is the first undertaken by Red Planet, a production company he launched last year backed by his long-time partners at Kudos.
(16) I really hope there's a snowball effect from that," said Glover, who was signed up to the Sporting Giants programme trawling for talent in rowing, handball and volleyball in 2008.
(17) His computer has been impounded as part of the paper's internal investigation and the company is trawling through his emails.
(18) Advising Mann on how to avoid a security breach involving sensitive data that was left unprotected on an ftp server Jones wrote: " Don't leave stuff lying around on ftp sites – you never know who is trawling them. "
(19) On the one hand, he notes, Metronomy played some US arena gigs supporting Coldplay, which came as something of a surprise, given that Mount had publicly expressed his dislike of Coldplay's music ("I think we have to appreciate that Chris and the boys, they've got bigger fish to fry than trawling through our old interviews," he says now), but nevertheless gave Mount an opportunity to watch one of the biggest bands in the world up close.
(20) Today the collateral damage of the trawling industry is processed and sold to the fast-growing poultry and aquaculture industries of the region 6 .