Well, that's good news.
'Leahy's proposal would have allowed over 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 have given 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.'
(h.t +John E. Bredehoft)
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Senator Patrick Leahy has scuttled a warrantless email surveillance bill amid public criticism
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Leahy scuttles his warrantless email surveillance bill
After public criticism of proposal to allow government agencies to warrantlessly access Americans’ e-mail, Senator Patrick Leahy says he will ‘not support’ such an idea at next week’s vote. Read this …
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