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

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

Followup article from declan ..
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/

Well, got to see what this is. 

Suresh Ramasubramanian [21/11/12 02:13 -0800]:
>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]:
>>
>>*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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