FBI sought info on who read USA Today news article for case
The USA Today newspaper is resisting an FBI demand to hand over data on readers of its story. …
Gannett’s lawyers say the order is “unconstitutional”, and invades the rights of both the news organisation and its readers, citing a Supreme Court judgement that said: “A requirement that a publisher disclose the identity of those who buy his books, pamphlets or papers is indeed the beginning of surveillance of the press”.