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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Bait and Switch: Law Goes From Protecting Your Email to Allowing Gov’t Into
Your Email
November 20, 2012 | by Warner Todd Huston
A new law that was originally meant to strengthen the privacy of your email
was recently re-written to allow government more access to your private
emails and other digital files.
When H.R. 2471 went to the Senate, Democrat Senator Pat Leahy quickly
rewrote the whole thing to allow federal policing agencies to have the power
to search your digital files without a warrant.
As CNET reports it,
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.
This is, of course, an example of the government going too far for security.
And you know the old saying so often attributed to Ben Franklin, “Those
who would trade in their freedom for their protection deserve neither.”
Also, I can’t stress more, here, that is the Democrats doing this. This is
not a GOP effort.
FreedomWorks has an action item on this:
On November 29th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding a vote
to amend language on a new cyber security measure (H.R. 2471) that would
give law enforcement unprecedented access to private electronic
communication.
The new language, written by Senator Patrick Leahy, would allow for over
22 federal government agencies to look at emails, Facebook wall posts, and
Google Doc files without a search warrant. The revision would also allow for
the FBI and Department of Homeland Security to have full access to Internet
accounts without ever informing a judge or the owner.
Government should protect the right to privacy; not trample it.
Tell your representatives to keep the government out of your email. Tell
them to vote no on Sen. Leahy’s federal power grab. | t**x
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