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dragnet

any system of coordinated efforts by police forces to track down wanted persons.
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Authority's ever-widening regulation dragnet includes problems of transparency, arbitrary blocking
Lewis to obtain a DNA swab as part of a race-biased dragnet, which involved the swabbing of over 360 African-American men in Howard Beach and other neighboring sections of Brooklyn and Queens," Luongo said.
"As we speak, the Provincial Mobile Force Company and SWAT of La Union are leading massive dragnet operations in the towns of Bangar, Sudipen, Bacnotan, Santol and San Juan, all in La Union," said Albayalde.
The suspects fled when police flagged them down in Barangay 176 during a dragnet operation, resulting in a chase and an alleged encounter with the suspects.
Always anxious to expand the size of its surveillance dragnet, the National Security Agency (NSA) is exploring the possibility of seizing data from Internet-connected biomedical devices such as pacemakers, NSA Deputy Director Richard Ledgett said at the 2016 Defense One Tech Summit in Washington, D.C., on June 10.
DRAGNET Sky Movies Comedy 4.10PM Cinemetic version of the popular American cop show from the 1960s.
NNA - President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed into law landmark legislation ending the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, significantly reversing American policy by reining in the most controversial surveillance program since 9/11.
The most recent dragnet caught a pair of stations in Oregon.
WASHINGTON -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nations largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has welcomed a ruling by a federal appeals court that the National Security Agencys (NSA) dragnet collection of Americans phone records is illegal under the USA Patriot Acts amendment of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Articles describe 19 American television series about police from Dragnet 1951-59 to Justified 2010-15.
TEHRAN (FNA)- New disclosures showed that the US Justice Department has been engaged in dragnet surveillance using aircraft equipped with a device that mimics a cellphone tower and scoops up data from thousands of mobile phone users.
Washington: An international dragnet has dismantled a global computer hacker network which used a sophisticated computer virus to steal millions of dollars from companies and consumers, the United States Justice Department has announced.