Congress, at Last Minute, Drops Requirement to Obtain Warrant to Monitor Email

[CuteOldGuy]

Hmmm . . .

So the Congress stealthily omits a protective amendment from the 2013 NDAA, and now silently deletes the warrant requirement for viewing emails from the VPPA. Yet watch me get bashed for even suggesting that something is wrong here.

Here's the article:

The federal government will continue to access Americans’ emails without a warrant, after the U.S. Senate dropped a key amendment to legislation now headed to the White House for approval.

Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee approved an amendment attached to the Video Privacy Protection Act Amendments Act (which deals with publishing users’ Netflix information on Facebook pages) that would have required federal law enforcement to obtain a warrant before monitoring email or other data stored remotely (i.e., the cloud).

The Senate was set to approve the video privacy bill along with the email amendment, which would have applied to a different law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. But then senators decided for reasons unknown to drop the amendment.

Currently, the government can collect emails and other cloud data without a warrant as long as the content has been stored on a third-party server for 180 days or more. Federal agents need only demonstrate that they have “reasonable grounds to believe” the information would be useful in an investigation.

“Reasonable grounds to believe” the information would be useful in an investigation? Are you serious? The data MIGHT be useful SOMEDAY, so they don't need a warrant? Is this the America you want to live in?

I know. Many of you do. Sad.

Read more:

http://www.allgov.com/news/top-stori...25?news=846578

[Yssup Rider]

Credible fucking source Chicken Little.

PLEASE put America on Ignore. Or go somewhere better to live.

[CuteOldGuy]

If you think it's false, then do some work and prove it. I think it is true. But you're too lazy, Assup, and MSNBC is not a credible source.

Here's a chance for you to gloat! Prove me wrong!

Dipshit.

[Guest040616]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Prove me wrong!

Let me take a stab at that. StupidOldFart is a compulsive liar!

[i'va biggen]

Every right winger knows MSMBC is a left wing mouthpiece trying to stir up the rabble...

[Guest123018-4]

Thought police for thought crimes.

But COG, we need to be protected and it should not bother you unless you are doing something wrong...........You know, like speaking out against the government........

[CuteOldGuy]

Of course, 2Dogs. The government only wants what's best for us.