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Congress Commitee sneaks in e-mail spying again!

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
edited May 2016 in Politics
Here is your Republic under secret auspices once again trying to get warrant-less information on your computer on the internet.

They need this power to protect you from terrorist,right and who protects us from the government?? A lesson forgotten by many Americans that our fore fathers knew needed to be protected from! unbridled government spying!!

serf

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/senate-judiciary-committee-must-pass-email-privacy-act-without-weakening

https://theintercept.com/2016/05/26/secret-text-in-senate-bill-would-give-fbi-warrantless-access-to-email-records/
The spy bill passed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, with the provision in it. The lone no vote came from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who wrote in a statement that one of the bill's provisions "would allow any FBI field office to demand email records without a court order, a major expansion of federal surveillance powers."

Wyden did not disclose exactly what the provision would allow, but his spokesperson suggested it might go beyond email records to things like web-surfing histories and other information about online behavior. "Senator Wyden is concerned it could be read that way," Keith Chu said.

It's unclear how or when the provision was added, although Sens. Richard Burr, R-N.C., - the committee's chairman - and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., have both offered bills in the past that would address what the FBI calls a gap and privacy advocates consider a serious threat to civil liberties.
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