cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42455984
FBI controversial smartphone sting operation led to nearly 30 arrests in Estonia
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The FBI agents that would be willing to do something probably already got purged…
Valid question, but this was several countries working together, at least eventually. It’s not like the FBI gets to unilaterally arrest people in European countries. They provide the evidence to the local police.
It also isn’t a new thing, the actual surveillance part was during Trump 1 and I think Biden.
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What gives you the impression they’re worrying about Estonia?
The sting operation was global. They had a network of compromised “secure” phones all around the world, including the US, between 2018 and 2021. Now they share the data they already have with the rest of the world. Likely this data got handed to the prosecutors here a long time ago, but the cases only wrapped up in 2025.
As for why they aren’t frying the bigger fish - idk, if I was American I’d rather they do LESS at home because doing more work at home would mean arresting more minorities lol
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Yes, intentionally.
They’re not going to investigate their owner, why would they? No business ever does.
Because they’d have to arrest like every single FBI executive ever, and going after their own is generally frowned upon in such institutions.
Really hope GrapheneOS isn’t just Anom v2.0
Although to my knowledge I’m not doing anything illegal with it, but that doesn’t mean I like being spied on…
From the estonian public broadcaster.
