It could get a lot easier for authorities to snoop through your e-mail.
The Senate is about to vote on legislation to update old 1980s surveillance laws to account for the new digital world. In earlier versions of the bill, the Democratic Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, said the law should protect internet users by requiring law enforcement agencies to obtain a search warrant before looking at any email. But a new version of the bill – heavily influenced by law enforcement agencies – makes it even easier for the government to read our emails. As CNET reports, the new bill would give 22 different agencies the legal authority to read emails, private Google Docs, person-to-person Twitter messages, and private Facebook posts – all without a search warrant. The law also doesn't even require the FBI and Homeland Security to notify the user or even a judge. This is the latest unconstitutional assault on our individual privacy in post-9/11 America. Call your Members of Congress and tell them to stop this attempt to further shred the Constitution.
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ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of hocus pocus. They (the NSA, the CIA, the FBI, the Secret Service, Homeland Security, and probablby a few others) are ALREADY reading and scanning anything they want. Anytime they want. 24-7. Pick up the book "The Puzzle Palace". You'll see what I mean. These people stopped asking for permission a long long time ago. Hell, they were tapping the pay phones (thought THAT was illegal, didn't you?) at Grand Central Station - all of them -- 35 years ago. Without a warrant. And all cable traffic in and out of the USA. All of it. And THAT was prohibited by law at the time. But these people don't think the law applies to them....read the book. You might stop your mindless cheering of these budding Nazi's.
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