[governance] Senate bill, quietly rewritten, allows feds to read e-mail without warrants

[Riaz K Tayob]

*Senate bill, quietly rewritten, allows feds to read e-mail without 
warrants* 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/>20 
Nov 2012

A Senate proposal touted 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20071670-281/senator-renews-pledge-to-update-digital-privacy-law/>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 warrantless access 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002722-38.html>to Americans' 
e-mail, is scheduled 
<http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=a4bac863917e3bf68f986f7431839d3c>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 without a search 
warrant 
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57521680-38/feds-snoop-on-social-network-accounts-without-warrants/>. 
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.





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