The White House asked Congress to allow the FBI to...
The White House asked Congress to allow the FBI to obtain records of people’s online activity without court orders in terrorism and other intelligence cases, The Washington Post reported. The administration recommended Thursday changing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by…
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adding electronic-communication transactional records to a list of items that can be seized without a warrant. If the proposal is enacted, the FBI could issue national security letters to ISPs, directing them to turn over details like “addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail,” and “times and dates e-mail was sent and received,” the Post said. The proposal “to change ECPA to cover electronic communication transaction records raises serious privacy and civil liberties concerns,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. “While the government should have the tools that it needs to keep us safe, American citizens should also have protections against improper intrusions into their private electronic communications and online transactions. We must also address past government abuses of these authorities."