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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @01:44AM from the as-if-they-wouldn't-otherwise dept.

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."

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Re:Yay! Democrats! by Stirling+Newberry · 2012-11-20 03:00 · Score: -1, Troll

Yeah, we could trust corporations to do this so much better. Libertarians - cut out the middle man in our plutocracy.

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Re:Yay! Democrats! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-11-20 03:25 · Score: -1, Troll

Because corrupt oligarchs at the trough of local business interests are definitely better than democracy.
Sadly, yes, they are.
When half the people want to live work-free off the largess of what is taken from the other half, then damn near anything is better than democracy. Including fascist dictatorship, which is where we're heading. (I hope I'm assigned to shovel the hippies and other useless eaters into the wood chippers; but wherever I can best serve the needs of the Glorious and Free State will be fine with me, Fellow Citizen.)