FBI eliminating Internet privacy - RT 7/30/10

Invasion of privacy in the Internet age. Expanding the reach of law enforcement to snoop on e-mail traffic or on Web surfing. Those are among the criticisms being aimed at the FBI as it tries to update a key surveillance law.

Federal law requires communications providers to produce records in counterintelligence investigations to the FBI, which doesn't need a judge's approval and court order to get them.

They can be obtained merely with the signature of a special agent in charge of any FBI field office and there is no need even for a suspicion of wrongdoing, merely that the records would be relevant in a counterintelligence or counterterrorism investigation. The person whose records the government wants doesn't even need to be a suspect.

The proposed change would allow the FBI to remove federal judges and courts from scrutiny of its requests for sensitive information. The administration wants to add just four words—"electronic communication transactional records"—to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history.

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[Justinfhtube]

It won't be long now until government put camera's in people's houses and lock people up for talking to their family members about how much the government sucks.

[mrbigtruth34]

@mannhorn34 Because no amount of money is worth dying for.

[mannhorn34]

Why do these companies bow to the feds?

[gultair]

1984?