In the future, Sproat suggested police should have to tighten their requests to cell phone companies, asking for information that more specifically targets possible suspects and does not create a dragnet for thousands of people.
Nor should it be used as a dragnet for rousting homeless people living in their vehicles.
Fields did a little acting, appearing in an episode of "Dragnet" when his client Jack Webb cast him as a prosecutor.
He continued, "I still haven't seen any evidence that the dragnet surveillance of Americans' personal information has done a single thing to improve U.S. national security".
Does a seller with an impeccable past deserve to be caught in this dragnet?
Responding to a question about what people working in technology can do to counteract dragnet, overreaching surveillance, Snowden said encryption is an "important first step".
If it's easy for the government to request broad and sweeping troves of information from Internet companies — if the companies don't make a fuss about each one — then it's more likely that the communications of innocent Americans will be caught up in a dragnet intended for foreigners.
We don't need national leaders adding fuel to the fires of bigotry by calling for recruits to join in a national dragnet for people who look or sound a certain way.
A vast dragnet for one man had brought a major American city to a standstill.
In Virginia — and in other states like Florida, where officials and candidates have been aping Arizona — creating a local dragnet for illegal immigrants is a popular slogan.
