Evening Edition: Tech firms press lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts

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Sign up for this newsletter Read online The day's most important stories, curated by Post editors.     Ryan Lackey, a Facebook customer who found out years later that the company's Law Enforcement Response Team turned over data to prosecutors years ago and didn't notify him. (Angel Valentin for The Washington Post) Tech firms press lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts Every year, Facebook, Google and other technology companies receive hundreds of thousands of orders from law enforcement agencies, seeking data people stash online and forbidding the companies from telling their customers about it. By Jay Greene and Drew Harwell ●  Read more »   Fallout begins for far-right trolls who trusted Epik to keep their identities secret By Drew Harwell, Hannah Allam, Jeremy B. Merrill and Craig Timberg ●  Read more »   A Little Italy festival is a way to honor those lost to pandemic — and to celebrate what remains Story by Kayla Ruble | Photos by Yana Paskova for The Post ●  Read more »   Idaho morgues are running out of space for bodies as covid-19 deaths mount By Derek Hawkins ●  Read more »   Arizona audit debunks Trump's false claims, but poison of misinformation still threatens electoral process The Take | Analysis ●  By Dan Balz ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Should you get a smartwatch? Here are some questions to ask. Help Desk | Analysis ●  By Chris Velazco ●  Read more »   Alan Braid, the doctor who defied Texas's abortion law, has spent years challenging such laws By Caroline Kitchener and Casey Parks ●  Read more »   Meet the Arkansas man behind the Texas abortion lawsuit. He's better known as an anti-tax crusader. By Ann E. Marimow ●  Read more »   How a quality-of-life award for a 12-lane Utah highway sums up the debate over the future of transportation By Ian Duncan ●  Read more »   Biden probably will release information about Trump's Jan. 6 activities, White House says By Amy B Wang, Tom Hamburger and Jacqueline Alemany ●  Read more »   ADVERTISEMENT   Biden defends social agenda bill, saying cost will be zero By Seung Min Kim and Tony Romm ●  Read more »   E.U. tells Russia not to carry out cyberattacks as Germany heads for Sunday election By Andrew Jeong ●  Read more »   Britney Spears' father bugged her phone and bedroom, a new film alleges By Ellen Francis ●  Read more »   Grocery workers have borne the pandemic's brunt. Now supermarket shootings are rising. By Joanna Slater, Laura Reiley, Caroline Anders and María Luisa Paúl ●  Read more »   U.S. Ryder Cup rout continues with more domination in Saturday morning matches By Chuck Culpepper ●  Read more »   8 important and overlooked questions to ask before buying a home By Michele Lerner ●  Read more »   A guide to the settings you should change now on Google, Venmo and other services to protect your data By Heather Kelly and Geoffrey A. Fowler ●  Read more »     We think you'll like this newsletter Check out National News email alerts for breaking news email alerts for major national and political news whenever it breaks. Sign up »

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