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href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/"
target="_blank"><strong><font face="Arial" size="2">Senate bill,
quietly rewritten, allows feds to read e-mail without
warrants</font></strong></a><font face="Arial" size="2"> 20
Nov 2012 <br>
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A Senate proposal </font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20071670-281/senator-renews-pledge-to-update-digital-privacy-law/"
target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">touted</font></a><font
face="Arial" size="2"> as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy
has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more
surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has
learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman
of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his
legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on
his bill, which now authorizes </font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002722-38.html"
target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">warrantless access</font></a><font
face="Arial" size="2"> to Americans' e-mail, is </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=a4bac863917e3bf68f986f7431839d3c"
target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">scheduled</font></a><font
face="Arial" size="2"> for next week. Leahy's rewritten bill
would allow more than 22 agencies -- including the Securities
and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications
Commission -- to access Americans' e-mail, Google Docs files,
Facebook wall posts, and Twitter direct messages </font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57521680-38/feds-snoop-on-social-network-accounts-without-warrants/"
target="_blank"><font face="Arial" size="2">without a search
warrant</font></a>. It also would give the FBI and Homeland
Security more authority, in some circumstances, to gain full
access to Internet accounts without notifying either the owner or
a judge.<br>
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