{"id":181538,"date":"2016-05-26T18:47:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/26\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-36\/"},"modified":"2016-05-26T18:47:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-26T23:47:00","slug":"live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/05\/26\/live-in-obedient-fear-citizen-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Live in Obedient Fear, Citizen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the FBI managed to <a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2016\/05\/26\/secret-text-in-senate-bill-would-give-fbi-warrantless-access-to-email-records\/\">sneak language into the intelligence authorization bill allowing the FBI to demand email and logs from an ISP without a warrant<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate\u2019s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals\u2019 email data and possibly web-surfing history from their service providers without a warrant and in complete secrecy.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">If passed, the change would expand the reach of the FBI\u2019s already highly controversial national security letters. The FBI is currently allowed to get certain types of information with NSLs \u2014 most commonly, information about the name, address, and call data associated with a phone number or details about a bank account.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Since a 2008 Justice Department legal opinion, the FBI has not been allowed to use NSLs to demand \u201celectronic communication transactional records,\u201d such as email subject lines and other metadata, or URLs visited.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The spy bill passed the Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday, with the provision in it. The lone no vote came from Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., who wrote in a statement that one of the bill\u2019s provisions \u201cwould allow any FBI field office to demand email records without a court order, a major expansion of federal surveillance powers.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Wyden did not disclose exactly what the provision would allow, but his spokesperson suggested it might go beyond email records to things like web-surfing histories and other information about online behavior. \u201cSenator Wyden is concerned it could be read that way,\u201d Keith Chu said.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re thinking:&nbsp; That the FBI would never abuse its power to go after people they disagreed with politically and abuse their powers.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why their headquarters is named after J. Edgar Hoover, because they would never function as a private army for a rogue director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like the FBI managed to sneak language into the intelligence authorization bill allowing the FBI to demand email and logs from an ISP without a warrant: A provision snuck into the still-secret text of the Senate\u2019s annual intelligence authorization would give the FBI the ability to demand individuals\u2019 email data and possibly web-surfing &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[971,998,970,1041,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-rights","category-congress","category-corruption","category-law-enforcement-misconduct","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}