USA Today is fighting a Federal Bureau of Investigation request for identifying information about readers who accessed the media giant’s story on a suspect in a child porn case.The story concerned a man who killed two FBI agents and wounded three others in a February raid in Florida.
It has not been disclosed why the FBI wants the information.The bureau sent a subpoena in April indicating it wants the IP addresses and phone numbers of people who accessed a news article about the incident between 8:03 a.m.
and 8:38 a.m. on Feb. 2.The information sought by the FBI investigation was disclosed in the subpoena.USA Today’s publisher, Gannett, contested the FBI demand in federal court on May 27, calling it unconstitutional and a violation of the
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