In a letter to Sen. Wyden, ODNI says FBI used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect website visitor logs without a warrant, but not keywords from searches
before being caught by DOJ. https://twitter.com/... Jameel Jaffer / @jameeljaffer : It's been obvious from the outset that Section 215 would be used in precisely this way. Congress should have narrowed the law many years ago. https://twitter.com/... Alex Howard / @digiphile : Remember when privacy advocates & civil libertarians warned the US government was obtaining the Internet browsing & search histories of Americans without a warrant? And Congress voted to allow it? https://gizmodo.com/... Well, here you go: https://twitter.com/... Sara Morrison / @saramorrison : in case you were wondering why @RonWyden and @SteveDaines were fighting so hard for that Patriot Act provision forbidding warrantless collection of browsing history and searches: https://www.nytimes.com/...
New/exclusive: The government has used Section 215 of the Patriot Act to collect logs of visitors to a website, according to an ODNI letter to @RonWyden. /1 https://www.nytimes.com/...
“The government has interpreted a high-profile provision of the Patriot Act as empowering F.B.I. national-security investigators to collect logs showing who has visited particular web pages, documents show.” Always suspected but now proven. Wow. https://www.nytimes.com/...
It's been obvious from the outset that Section 215 would be used in precisely this way. Congress should have narrowed the law many years ago. https://twitter.com/...
Important point in @charlie_savage latest on the PATRIOT Act - if expired provisions of the law end up being debated before Congress next year, the fact that you have these “bulk-ish” demands really highlights the importance of the Wyden-Daines amendment https://twitter.com/...
Big: The FBI secretly abused the same authority that caused a mass surveillance scandal under Obama in a new way to monitor connections to an unidentified US website. When Congress asked about it, the Director of National Intelligence initially lied—before being caught by DOJ. ht…
Remember when privacy advocates & civil libertarians warned the US government was obtaining the Internet browsing & search histories of Americans without a warrant? And Congress voted to allow it? https://gizmodo.com/... Well, here you go: https://twitter.com/...
in case you were wondering why @RonWyden and @SteveDaines were fighting so hard for that Patriot Act provision forbidding warrantless collection of browsing history and searches: https://www.nytimes.com/...