Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email
The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.
Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amendment attached to the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act (which deals with publishing users’ Netflix information on Facebook pages) that would have required federal law enforcement to obtain a warrant before monitoring email or other data stored remotely (i.e., the cloud).
The Senate was set to approve the video privacy bill along with the email amendment, which would have applied to a different law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But then senators decided for reasons unknown to drop the amendment.
Currently, the government can collect emails and other cloud data without a warrant as long as the content has been stored on a third-party server for 180 days or more. Federal agents need only demonstrate that they have “reasonable grounds to believe” the information would be useful in an investigation.
-Noel Brinkerhoff
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If this weeds out the threats to society we should all be for it,but this program needs to be held accountable for it's failures.It should be on a trial basis of maybe one year.If the program functions properly we should see a decline in incidents such as school shootings or terrorist attacks.
ReplyDelete10:34, i've got a bridge in brooklyn i'll sell you.
ReplyDeleteForget 11:09's offer 10:34 am, I'll sell you the whole city and the bridge for peanuts. You can count on my word, I've been a banker, a politician, an auctioneer and a lawyer, my honesty precedes me?
DeleteListen up, business owners. This is why the industry is trying to push you into "the cloud."
ReplyDeleteThe government picks winners and losers more than ever. If you should ever develop a disruptive technology and you pass that info along via Google Apps or Microsoft Office 365 (your subscription or the receiver's subscription), expect those trade secrets to be compromised.
There is no substitute for controlling your own IT infrastructure!
10:34 is a secret Nazi. "If you're not doing anything wrong, then don't worry about any "rights" --- the problem being that YOU don't get to decide what is "wrong". And you so easily give up YOUR rights, but MY rights are also given up at the same time, thanks to people like 10:34. "Threats to society"??? CONGRESS, the Supreme Court, the president are the biggest "threats to society". Monitor THEM. Forget the bridge and the city --- I've got some SS emblems I'll GIVE you. I KNOW you'd be so happy to wear them.....
ReplyDeleteWe, the U.S. gubnet, is the enemy. We support the terrorists, we put in power people we want in power, we lie, kill, steal, intimidate, threaten, jail, torture, frame others, stage phony elections and probably a lot of stuff I don't know about.
ReplyDeleteUntil the masses finally see that the emperor has no clothes, this will continue.
Stop looking for others to blame. The blame lies at our feet.
When that is finally realized, and worked on to change it, then things will get better, maybe.
We have been in a constant state of war for a lifetime. The world hates us, as we would too of any occupying force in our land.