Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Supreme Court Unconstitutionally Grants The FBI The Right To Hack Any Computer Anywhere In The World

 
FBI Director James Comey, former FBI Director Robert Mueller and U.S. President Barack Obama
 
Privacy advocates have slammed the Supreme Court's decision to grant the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) the right to hack any computer anywhere in the world without a warrant (they've been doing this for years anyway, now they're trying to make it legal). This means there will be no accountability and scores of violations of international law, when the hacking extends into foreign countries in an imperialistic manner. This is a massive overreach that is unconstitutional. 

The Obama administration has destroyed the American people's privacy to terrible degrees. Obama has used the NSA, FBI and CIA, to spy on Americans in egregious, illegal ways that constitute awful privacy violations. If Obama's family were subjected to the same privacy violations he has rubberstamped as president, he would be outraged. 

Newsweek stated of the decision, "These amendments will have significant consequences for Americans’ privacy and the scope of the government’s powers to conduct remote surveillance and searches of electronic devices...these are complex issues involving privacy, digital security and our Fourth Amendment rights, which require thoughtful debate and public vetting."

The Judiciary Report is of the opinion, with the FBI openly allowed to hack computers domestically and internationally, you will see a massive increase in retaliatory hacks from foreign governments, angry the agency is stepping on their toes, running roughshod over fellow sovereign nations via computer intrusion. 

STORY SOURCE

Supreme Court Allows FBI to Hack Any Computer Anywhere With a Warrant

By Seung Lee On 5/1/16 at 10:02 AM - Thanks to a Supreme Court decision on Thursday, law enforcement agencies including the FBI may end up with broad powers to hack any computer, regardless of its physical location—but the expansion of power hinges upon congressional approval. 

With a new rule change in the Federal Rule of Criminal Procedures, which covers search and seizure protocols, federal judges would be able to issue warrants to search computers located anywhere in the world. Before the Supreme Court’s alteration, federal magistrate judges were allowed only to issue warrants within their own jurisdictions. The Supreme Court submitted the changes to Congress as a part of the court’s annual review of the procedures, which were passed by Congress in 1938 for a more uniform way of dealing with criminal cases across the country.

At least one senator and several privacy rights organizations called the decision an affront to civil rights and a doorway to unchecked government hacking. Congress has until December 1 to amend or block the Supreme Court decision. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon has publicly slammed the decision on Twitter and said he will propose a bill to reverse it. 

“These amendments will have significant consequences for Americans’ privacy and the scope of the government’s powers to conduct remote surveillance and searches of electronic devices,” Wyden says in a statement. “These are complex issues involving privacy, digital security and our Fourth Amendment rights, which require thoughtful debate and public vetting.”... 
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