I mean, clearly we've been living in a lawless Wild West full of terrorist bombings and drug lord shootings while those pokey old judges have been taking long vacations and otherwise sitting on urgently needed search warrants!
Surely the dozen or so federal agencies covered here — everyone from the FBI to the SEC — will never take advantage of just needing a subpoena to look at anyone's cloud data.
And, surely local police would never abuse the "emergency" provision of the law to let them peek at email without a warrant, either.
And I'm sure carrier notification to the people who's email is being snooped through will only rarely, if ever, be pushed out to the full year maximum delay that is being proposed.
I feel safer already! (h/t +Paula Jones)
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At the moment, Internet users enjoy more privacy rights if they store data on their hard drives or under their mattresses, a legal hiccup that the companies fear could slow the shift to cloud-based services unless the law is changed to be more privacy-protective.
Did you hear anything from the media on this one? I didn't and it's SCARY stuff…..
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Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week originally increased Americans’ e-mail privacy. Then law enforcement complained. Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files. Read …
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Lovely, I think, is the best word to describe that.
I wonder if some legal loophole will weaken the protections on hard drives also. After all, hard drives are connected to the Internet, which means that they just might have content from your service providers…best be safe and just check 'em…
As has become increasingly clear, in the name of national security (or the excuse thereof), no data is safe. The only question becomes whether the privacy is violated in secret and covered in court by "national security" excuses, or openly and legally.
I'd just as soon not make it easy for 'em.
I hope they start by reading the emails of the senators who wrote this thing.
@Avo – Well, they’ve backed off on it. For now.