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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Senator Leahy denies declan's interpretation ..

http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/268929-leahy-denies-supporting-bill-to-allow-warrantless-email-searches

And yes, I think Declan might have got his facts a bit mixed up.

The ACLU seems to agree with this interpretation (that Sen. Leahy doesn't
support this). The nearest wording available that matches what Declan
posted about is actually proposed by Sen. Chuck Grassley, a republican.

Riaz K Tayob [21/11/12 12:01 +0200]:
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>*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
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>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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