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Email Privacy Bill Rewritten To Actually Remove Email Privacy
"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. [Senator Pat] 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."
—Maybe we're all better off without the Senate protecting our Internet privacy. UPDATE: Tech industry people get angry, Leahy kills the warrantless part, for now.
Correction!: http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/268929-leahy-denies-supporting-bill-to-allow-warrantless-email-searches
@nostrich@twitter Grassley expressed skepticism about creating new barriers for police investigations at a committee meeting in September.
How is obtaining a warrant a barrier? How is this guy a Senator?
@SkinnyNerd he won the position in the "most baffling twitter feed" contest
Is there an easy way to find out whether any of my ex-girlfriends work at one of those 22 agencies?
@GiovanniGF If you've got access to a public records database, yes! If not, not.
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