Senate Bill Rewrite Lets Feds Read Your E-mail Without Warrants

concealment writes "A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law. [Sen. Patrick] 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. 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."

Comments

Re:where is a petition against this that I can sig

[PortHaven]

You can find the petition here...

http://cheaperthandirt.com/

Re:Yay! Democrats!

[moeinvt]

We already have a new national anthem. It goes like this:

"AMERICA! .... F*** Yeah! "

Re:Slashdot has a credibility problem

[JustOK]

Is there a convenient but more secure alternative to Google docs?

LibreOffice. No one can open those files.