Senate Votes to Allow FBI to Look at Your Web Browsing History Without a Warrant

[Theodore]

I usually like ******* Mitch, but this is just a bad proposal from him.

[PACnPBFsuck]

It’s already been/being done. What’s the real angle here?

Now they're gonna legalize without the patriot act BS.

[Thuglife Nelo]

Now they're gonna legalize without the patriot act BS.

I would’ve assumed they’d categorized it as “surveillance” for national security which is basically grounds for the Patriot Act.

I guess the US govt wants full control over private companies. For example, for someone who JUST uses nothing but OSX’s Safari, does Apple allow the sale of personal history to the US Govt.? I’d think they don’t.

My theory:

As super computers / clusters / continue becoming advanced and newer forms like quantum com*****g in 10 years strong, the US govt will be able to track virtually every citizens move in real time and calculate any security threats.

The angle’s usually security first, and then second, money. Money in that wealthy senators can make a buck off owning some shares for companies that track data for consumerism. I don’t know, China is pretty hardcore with security over their citizens too. The whole 5G thing is in a class of itself

[Pigeons]

This isn't good for me.

[HewJohnson]

Good. Be able to help catch the plotting murderers.

If they see mine they’ll just see a whole lot of sports related searches and brazzers.

[-Kev-]

Child ******ers better beware now.

[Danieltapia]

I will try to keep them busy.

[Anthony342]

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing forward with an ********* that would let the FBI collect records on Americans' web-browsing and search histories without a warrant this week.

McConnell proposed the ********* as part of the renewal of the 2001 Patriot Act, The Daily Beast first reported. The Senate is voting on *********s this week.

The McConnell ********* would let Department of Justice officials — overseen by Attorney General Bill Barr — look through anyone's browsing history without the approval of a judge if they deem the browsing history relevant to an investigation. It blocks the FBI from accessing the "content" of people's web-browsing history but would let the FBI access records detailing which sites and search terms people entered.

The proposal has drawn backlash from a bipartisan group of senators, as well as from both ******* and conservative civil-liberties groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union and Americans for Prosperity.

********ic Sen. Ron Wyden and ********** Sen. Steve Daines jointly proposed an ********* that would require the FBI to obtain a warrant before accessing people's web-browsing history — but their ********* failed by just one vote Wednesday, bringing warrantless searches of web-browsing history one step closer to becoming law.

"When you talk about web browsing and searches, you're talking about some of the most sensitive, most personal, and most private details of Americans' lives. Every thought that can come into people's heads can be revealed in an internet search or a visit to a website," Wyden said in a statement to Business Insider.

McConnell's press office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In a joint op-ed, ACLU counsel Neema Singh Guliani and Americans for Prosperity analyst Billy Easley decried warrantless web-browsing searches as "secret spying" and "unjust."

As it weighs the reauthorization of the Patriot Act, the Senate is also considering *********s that would give the attorney general more oversight of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Court, which handles investigations into political candidates.

Doesn't the Patriot Act already let the government invade people's privacy like this? They already don't let you go through due process.