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<div align="left"><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57552225-38/senate-bill-rewrite-lets-feds-read-your-e-mail-without-warrants/"
target="_blank"><strong><font size="2" face="Arial">Senate bill,
quietly rewritten, allows feds to read e-mail without
warrants</font></strong></a><font size="2" face="Arial"> 20
Nov 2012 A Senate proposal </font><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20071670-281/senator-renews-pledge-to-update-digital-privacy-law/"
target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial">touted</font></a><font
size="2" face="Arial"> as protecting Americans' e-mail privacy
has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more
surveillance power than they possess under current law. CNET has
learned that Patrick Leahy, the influential Democratic chairman
of the Senate Judiciary committee, has dramatically reshaped his
legislation in response to law enforcement concerns. A vote on
his bill, which now authorizes </font><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002722-38.html"
target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial">warrantless access</font></a><font
size="2" face="Arial"> to Americans' e-mail, is </font><a
href="http://www.judiciary.senate.gov/hearings/hearing.cfm?id=a4bac863917e3bf68f986f7431839d3c"
target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial">scheduled</font></a><font
size="2" face="Arial"> 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 </font><a
href="http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57521680-38/feds-snoop-on-social-network-accounts-without-warrants/"
target="_blank"><font size="2" face="Arial">without a search
warrant</font></a><font size="2" face="Arial">. 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.<br>
<br>
<font size="2">Tell your Senators in D.C. what you think <font
size="2">of this.<br>
<font size="2">Agnes</font><br>
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