Do you know about Senator Leahy's E-mail Snooping Bill?

[Unhip White Guy]

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/L...nooping-122124

Leahy Bill Rewrite Expands Warrantless E-mail Snooping
As Bill Pretends to Protect Citizen E-mail Privacy

Because the rapid, massive and unprecedented existing expansion of government surveillance powers over the last decade apparently wasn't significant enough, a new rewrite of a Senate bill will allow additional warrantless surveillance of citizen e-mail. Declan McCullagh over at CNET notes that a bill by Democrat Patrick Leahy that proclaims to be protecting consumer e-mail privacy, actually expands e-mail surveillance powers dramatically:

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. It also would give 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.

Leahy appears to have buckled under pressure from the National District Attorneys' Association and the National Sheriffs' Association organizations.

[Loving]

Sorry I didn't hear about this before. I just come across to your question on this topic and I get information about this.

[Canute]

I saw a headline today.