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Title		U.S. Senate About to Vote on Warrantless Searches
Date		Wednesday June 22 2016, @08:40PM
Author		takyon
Topic
from the in-this-day-and-age dept.

https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/22/1938230

An Anonymous Coward writes:

United States Senators McCain and Burr have proposed that the FBI's use of National Security Letters should be expanded to include rummaging through email, web browsing, and other electronic communications. The proposed rider would also make permanent the surveillance of suspected potential terrorists with no ties to terrorist groups.

A vote is expected today, Wednesday, June 22. Fight for the Future has set up a site for U.S. residents to contact their senators by phone about this issue.

takyon: See also:

Links

"proposed that the FBI's use of National Security Letters should be expanded" - http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/06/21/post-orlando-senate-rejects-gun-control-calls-more-spying-instead
"make permanent the surveillance of suspected potential terrorists with no ties" - http://www.pcmag.com/news/345462/after-orlando-gop-moves-to-expand-fbi-surveillance-power
"U.S. residents to contact their senators" - https://www.decidethefuture.org/
"EFF Urges Senate Not to Expand FBI's Controversial National Security Letter Authority" - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/eff-urges-senate-not-expand-fbis-controversial-national-security-letter-authority
"We Made the Message Loud and Clear: Stop the Rule 41 Updates" - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/06/we-made-message-loud-and-clear-stop-rule-41-updates
"DOJ Insists That Rule 41 Change Is Not Important, Nothing To See Here, Move On Annoying Privacy Activist People" - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20160621/17440334778/doj-insists-that-rule-41-change-is-not-important-nothing-to-see-here-move-annoying-privacy-activist-people.shtml
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