[ NNSquad ] FDA apparently used "spyware techniques" to spy on employees' personal Gmail accounts

[Lauren Weinstein <lauren@vortex.com>]

FDA apparently used "spyware techniques" to spy on employees' personal Gmail accounts

http://j.mp/wBLQyO  (Washington Post)

   "The Food and Drug Administration secretly monitored the personal
    e-mail of a group of its own scientists and doctors after they warned
    Congress that the agency was approving medical devices that they
    believed posed unacceptable risks to patients, government documents
    show. The surveillance - detailed in e-mails and memos unearthed by
    six of the scientists and doctors, who filed a lawsuit against the FDA
    in U.S. District Court in Washington last week - took place over two
    years as the plaintiffs accessed their personal Gmail accounts from
    government computers."
 
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--Lauren--
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