Pending Senate Bill Lets Feds Read Your Email Without a Warrant

[jazdoc]

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-5...ithout-warrants/?part=rss&subj=news&tag=title

Revised bill highlights
? Grants warrantless access to Americans' electronic correspondence to over 22 federal agencies. Only a subpoena is required, not a search warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause.
? Permits state and local law enforcement to warrantlessly access Americans' correspondence stored on systems not offered "to the public," including university networks.
? Authorizes any law enforcement agency to access accounts without a warrant -- or subsequent court review -- if they claim "emergency" situations exist.
? Says providers "shall notify" law enforcement in advance of any plans to tell their customers that they've been the target of a warrant, order, or subpoena.
? Delays notification of customers whose accounts have been accessed from 3 days to "10 business days." This notification can be postponed by up to 360 days.

 

[GaryProtein]

That makes me want to encrypt my morse code and use ham radio.

 

[audioarcher]

Wow. That is insane. Privacy? What privacy?

 

[ack]

And then some wonder why people hate the government and pile up guns.

 

[NorthStar]

-- Is this like 'communism'?

 

[rockitman]

-- Is this like 'communism'?

It's getting there...

 

[NorthStar]

-- After all, the Americans don't seem to hate Fidel Castro so much.

Poutine? ...Like the real poutine from Quebec.

 

[edorr]

-- Is this like 'communism'?

I think this would be more like fascism.

 

[Wayne A. Pflughaupt]

Apparently the bill has been abandoned – thankfully. See the link that now appears below Sen. Leahy’s picture in the link from Post #1.

We really need term limits for congressmen and senators, maybe 6-8 years. When they’re in Washington for too long, at some point they stop working for their local constituents and start working for the federal government.

And why do these people receive a salary from the federal government to begin with? They should be paid by the states that sent them. That would help them remember who they work for.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

 

[GaryProtein]

Apparently the bill has been abandoned – thankfully. See the link that now appears below Sen. Leahy’s picture in the link from Post #1.

We really need term limits for congressmen and senators, maybe 6-8 years. When they’re in Washington for too long, at some point they stop working for their local constituents and start working for the federal government.

And why do these people receive a salary from the federal government to begin with? They should be paid by the states that sent them. That would help them remember who they work for.

Regards,
Wayne A. Pflughaupt

We definitely need term limits. About eight consecutive years or two terms in office is plenty.

You make a good point about their salaries,. They should be paid by the people who elected them, not the federal government.

 

[ack]

Apparently the bill has been abandoned – thankfully. See the link that now appears below Sen. Leahy’s picture in the link from Post #1.

Good. Because that would indeed have been fascism, the kind an occupier imposes on the occupied.