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Senate Defeats Amendment To Shield Browsing Histories in FISA Searches Slashdothttps://nu.federati.net/url/269261 >The Senate on Wednesday blocked a bipartisan effort to shield Americans' internet browsing and search histories from warrantless surveillance. From a report: >Lawmakers voted 59-37 on an amendment by Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) to a House-app…
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Boo! I suppose there's an exemption in there to prosecution for violating one's oath of office, too. Someone should tell them that spy services are probably buried in false positives based on such widespread suspicionless data collection, and that they'd be better able to do their jobs if they had to obtain a real judge's permission (under normal non-FISA laws) to spy on a pa…