The Justice Department's practice of making bulk requests for email in criminal investigations has come under fire from a pair of federal judges who say the volume of irrelevant information swept up poses an intrusion into Americans' privacy. In the past year, U.S. magistrate judges John Facciola in Washington, D.C., and David Waxse in Kansas City, Kan., have rejected or modified a number of applications for warrants to search people's emails and other electronic communications at Internet firms such as Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc.
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