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U.S. Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Delay Enhanced Government Hacking Powers

posted by on Sunday November 20 2016, @02:33PM   Printer-friendly

Phoenix666 writes:

From an article in PC World:

U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation to delay the coming into force on Dec. 1 of a rule change that aims to expand the government's ability to search computers and other digital devices across many jurisdictions with a single warrant.

The Review the Rule Act aims to delay for discussion proposed amendments to rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure until July 1 next year. The changes to the rule were upheld by the Supreme Court in April, and if Congress doesn't act to the contrary, they will go into effect on Dec. 1.

The modified rule would remove the current prohibition with some exceptions on a federal judge issuing a search warrant outside of the judge's district, so as to enable the remote search by law enforcement of computers whose locations are concealed using technology such as anonymizing techniques. The changes in rule 41 were proposed by the Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure at the request of the Justice Department.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Whoever on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:32PM

    by Whoever (4524) on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:32PM (#429993) Journal

    From the article:

    Under the modified rule, a judge may issue a warrant to remotely search, copy, and seize information from a device that does not have a known location,

    from the 4th amendment:

    ...and particularly describing the place to be searched,

    How can such warrants be valid under the 4th, when they clearly are in violation of the 4th?

    I suppose that SCOTUS either has or will fail to do its job yet again and actually uphold the text of the constitution.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:36PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @06:36PM (#429997)

    Correct

    because some VIP will step in and explain to the judge(s) how important it is for the safety of the good ol' US of A.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @07:05PM

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:08PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday November 20 2016, @08:08PM (#430041)

    just wait till they torify all TEH interwebz transparently in utah.

    "so where is everybody located?"
    "we don't know!"