Whistleblowers Accuse FDA of Electronic Spying

Six government whistleblowers allege that the Food and Drug Administration has been illegally spying on them since 2008 in an attempt to silence their reporting. According to a lawsuit filed in federal court, the FDA secretly installed spyware on government-owned computers used by the the six, and intercepted e-mails from their private accounts. The group, which was known as the "FDA nine" before three members decided to bow out of legal proceedings, had sounded the alarm on the agency for pushing through unsafe products, like computer-aided detection devices used with breast mammograms and a CT colonography device, which were both given the FDA stamp of approval over internal objections. The FDA has not commented.

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