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It’s especially jarring to read that a foreign government’s potential data collection supposedly justifies banning an app, given Congress’s recent renewal of an authority — Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act— under which the U.S. government itself collects massive amounts of Americans’ communications, a warrantless digital dragnet which the FBI immediately directed its agents to abuse yet again.

Ukraine has taken steps to root out corruption, and a dragnet over the past two years has seen Ukraine’s defense minister, top prosecutor, intelligence chief and other senior officials lose their jobs.

Among Coleman’s other films were “North Dallas Forty,” “Cloak and Dagger,” “Dragnet,” “Meet the Applegates,” “Inspector Gadget” and “Stuart Little.”

In October, the Colorado Supreme Court upheld the search of Google users’ keyword history, an approach that critics have called a digital dragnet that threatens to undermine people’s privacy and their constitutional protections against unreasonable searches and seizures.

A statewide dragnet for organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, ensued, followed by hundreds of arrests.