{"id":31439,"date":"2012-11-20T14:20:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/leahy-flip-flops-in-a-good-direction-on-privacy.html"},"modified":"2012-11-20T14:20:09","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T21:20:09","slug":"leahy-flip-flops-in-a-good-direction-on-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/20\/leahy-flip-flops-in-a-good-direction-on-privacy.html","title":{"rendered":"Leahy flip-flops (in a good direction) on privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, that's good news. \u00a0<\/p>\n

'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.'<\/i><\/p>\n

(h.t +<\/span>John E. Bredehoft<\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n

Reshared post from +CNET<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Senator Patrick Leahy has scuttled a warrantless email surveillance bill amid public criticism<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLeahy scuttles his warrantless email surveillance bill<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter 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 …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

Google+:<\/strong> View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, that's good news. \u00a0 '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 … Continue reading “Leahy flip-flops (in a good direction) on privacy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5934,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/25\/word_2.html","url_meta":{"origin":31439,"position":0},"title":"Word","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 25-Jun-04 12:04pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Big kerfluffle today over Dick Cheney using a naughty word in the Senate chambers. 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