Senate Bill Would Let Fbi Read Your EMails Without A Court Order

CNet ^ | 05/25/2016 | Shara Tibken

[Cyberman]

Better watch what you put in email.

The Senate Intelligence Committee on Tuesday approved a bill that would make it easier for the government to read what you're writing online....

The bill is the latest move by the federal government to shore up its powers when it comes to surveilling citizens. The government has been battling Apple and other tech companies for more access to data stored on devices. Law enforcement argues it can't fight crimes unless it has access to information on mobile gadgets. Technology companies and rights groups argue that features like strong encryption, which scrambles data so it can be read only by the intended recipient, are needed to keep people safe and protect privacy.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC) and Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Tuesday in a joint statement that the 2017 Intelligence Authorization Act makes it easier for the government to keep Americans safe....

[stocksthatgoup]

Maybe now the State Department can find all oh Hillary’s emails.

[rktman]

They’re busy pretending to be in pursuit of hildabama and her violations of something.

[Nifster]

Treasonous pure and simple

[stocksthatgoup]

Aren’t we giving up control of the Internet?

[gaijin]

I believe that currently if your email is 6 months old or more the feds do not have to have any warrant to read it.

I mean that is true today.

[Paladin2]

An Admendment? Like the Corker Admendment?

[Texas Fossil]

What they want is to archive everything on everyone for the time when they decide they want to take a look at you should you piss someone off. Then they dial up the NSA data center and take a look-see at a treasure trove of personal effects and conversations which you've had for all of time.

Bingo! What do you think that huge building complex in Harry Reid's home state does? Exactly what you said. Record everything in searchable format forever. Nothing "really" goes away. It is all recorded. Unlike phone conversation, computer text data is a very small file size. Audio and video is much larger. I've seen events that indicate it is also possible to do that with the RF spectrum. It truly is a "brave new world". /sarcasm

[TheCipher]

get back to you later. Busy deleting emails.wait, that doesn’t work, does it?

It does for Hillary.

[unread]

"Sounds like a potential law that would be in violation of an Amendment!"

Therein lies the problem...

The All Powerful Government now considers itself above all laws... When the King or any of his dominions makes a decree, well it's, "so let it be written, so let it be done..!!"

This will most likely continue until some of them are hanged for treason....

MHO..... :(

[MichaelCorleone]

Yep - the worn-out excuse of ‘keeping us safe’.

According to the ladies on NPR, it is the white, working soccer moms who go to the ‘keeping us safe’ meme like bees to honey.

Yet they don’t see the chains being linked up one by one...

[Buttons12]

What's the best "secure" email?
Somebody asked me this just yesterday. Not that I'm the best to ask, I'm merely the smartest they know, lol...
So I looked into it. They all seem to have drawbacks. The govt has shut down some of them in the past few years. The oldest is hushmail, but that doesn't mean it's great. Startpage.com has an encrypted email I never knew about and it's my homepage. Proton is said to be great but after reading their feedback page I see a lot of shortcomings.
The list I worked from is here:

freedomhacker.net/list-of-secure-email-providers-that-take-privacy-serious/

Anyone here with actual experience of any secure email service for the pc?

[Little Ray]

If they ever read my email, I’ll be charged with murder - the folks who have to read my emails will die of utter boredom.

[I want the USA back]

We cannot trust the government to respect our rights. Anyone who proposes this is a fascist and needs to be driven out of office.

[mykroar]

I need to find the list of trigger words the NSA likes to look for and include a special sig on all my e-mails now.

[PeteePie]

[Cyberman]

I’ve had some experience with ProtonMail — it’s still rough around the edges, though. I’m optimistic that it will be more ready for prime time after a few more refinements.

[Phlap]

Given that they already read them, what difference will it make?

[null and void]

At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son

The biggest killer of mankind

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[Black Agnes]

Winner winner chicken dinner.

[null and void]

I refer to the Voynich Manuscript, as an example.

You haven't looked that up lately, have you.