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The Telecom Digest for November 24, 2012
Volume 31 : Issue 275 : "text" Format
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Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill (Bill Horne)
Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants (Bill Horne)

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Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:59:03 -0500
From: bill@horneQRM.net (Bill Horne)
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill 
Message-ID: <20121124015903.GA24165@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Leahy scuttles his warrantless e-mail surveillance bill

After public criticism of proposal that lets government agencies
warrantlessly access Americans' e-mail, Sen. Patrick Leahy says he
will "not support" such an idea at next week's vote.

by Declan McCullagh  November 20, 2012 12:35 PM PST

Sen. Patrick Leahy has abandoned his controversial proposal that would
grant government agencies more surveillance power -- including
warrantless access to Americans' e-mail accounts -- than they possess
under current law.  The Vermont Democrat said today on Twitter that he
would "not support such an exception" for warrantless access. The
remarks came a few hours after a CNET article was published this
morning that disclosed the existence of the measure.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552687-38/leahy-scuttles-his-warrantless-e-mail-surveillance-bill/

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http://goo.gl/E7qcp

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Well, there you have it: a great illustration of the massive feedback
loop which is the Internet. The Senator, of course, might have been
floating a trial balloon, but I was surprised that Cnet got to report
an about-face so quickly.

Bill

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)




Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 20:53:17 -0500
From: Bill Horne <bill@horneQRM.net>
To: telecomdigestmoderator.remove-this@and-this-too.telecom-digest.org.
Subject: Senate bill rewrite lets feds read your e-mail without warrants  
Message-ID: <20121124015317.GA23721@telecom.csail.mit.edu>

Caution: Don't panic yet. See my follow-up email as well. 

Bill

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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.

by Declan McCullagh  November 20, 2012 4:00 AM PST

A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy has
been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance
power than they possess under current law, CNET has learned.  Patrick
Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, has dramatically reshaped his legislation in response to
law enforcement concerns, according to three individuals who have been
negotiating with Leahy's staff over the changes. A vote on his bill,
which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans' e-mail, is
scheduled for next week.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/

-or-

http://goo.gl/t4w9D

-- 
Bill Horne
(Remove QRM from my email address to write to me directly)






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