Biden administration officials tout Colonial Pipeline case in pushing for Section 702 renewal

The U.S. government used controversial digital surveillance powers to identify the individual behind the crippling ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline in 2021 and to claw back a majority of the millions of dollars in bitcoin the company paid to restore its systems, according to senior Biden administration officials. In another instance, the government used information

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