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Cyber Security Enhancement Act Passes Senate

Posted by timothy on from the why-can't-we-take-a-pass-instead dept.

XorNand writes "The Cyber Security Enhancement Act (which was attached to the Homeland Security Act) was overwelming approved by the U.S. Senate today. According the EFF this soon-to-be-law allows "any government entity (federal, state, or local) to request email and voicemail from your ISP or telephone provider without a warrant or probable cause." The passage of the Homeland Security Bill is covered here on CNN.com. Yippee."

2 of 112 comments (clear)

  1. Ouch. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Troll

    I'm happy I don't live in the United States of America.

    Please don't dump your freedom rhetoric on me; you're no 'more free' than the rest of the western world.

  2. Slashdot == Latent, Spelling Errors. tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This happened way earlier in the day. And it "passed overwhelmingly," idiot editors, not "was overwelming approved". Bad grammar and spelled wrong. What a fucking dolt. Now, lets get on with discussions about how this is the new Waffen SS, and America is now Amerika, and that we will become totalitarian and the government watches you fuck blah blah, and then as all these fucking liberals piss and whine about rights being taken away, they want to hand over their arms to the government. Fucking idiots are almost as dumb as Slashdot editors. Almost.