Yes, they will protect your privacy. They will ensure that you’re email is safe.
Pay no attention to edits on that document.
Silly track changes.
Must have been that admin again.
From C|NET:
A vote on his bill, which now authorizes warrantless access to Americans’ e-mail, is scheduled for next week.
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 troubling. Yet another piece of legislation that appears hell bent on stripping away what fleeting rights the US citizens still enjoy.
One of the interesting highlights recently was in the story of General David Petraeus and his well publicized fall from grace was the email angle. The interesting part isn’t that he was getting some out of town strange on the side but, more importantly, why was the FBI reading his email in the first place? Ostensibly under the guise of investigating a security breach but…no, that doesn’t really hang together. If someone tried to hack into the head of the CIA’s personal email why was the FBI checking into it? Furthermore, why did they access the account and release the the gist of the emails? I’m sure it had nothing to do with the age old inter-agency rivalry.
Rather stunning was the sheer numbers of people that seemed to be readily available to comment on the situation who were not cleared to “discuss this publicly”. Seems to happen a lot. Hell, it even found it’s way into Canada. Has it come down to the Petraeus incident for people in the US to pay attention? If so, thank him.
What happened to privacy in the US? This proposed US Senate Bill seems to answer that.
Dead on arrival I’m afraid.
Source: Article Link
UPDATE: Sen. Leahy says they got his position wrong in the C|Net article.
@cnet has it wrong. Sen.Leahy does NOT support an #ECPA exception to search warrant requirement 4 civil enforcement or agncies like FTC, SEC
— Sen. Patrick Leahy (@SenatorLeahy) November 20, 2012
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