by Dean James

FBI LOOKING INTO HACKING FURTHER INTO OUR FOURTH AMENDMENT!

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The FBI is discussing a new proposal with an Advisory Committee for expanded authority to be able to remotely hack and spy on computer in the U.S. and abroad. Civil liberties and advocates are calling the proposal a “new, expansive power” that could allow the government to collect private data, raising “significant breach” on the First and Fourth Amendment . The FBI is claiming the change is a necessary update to outdated rules on territorial limits of warrants for electronic storage searches. The proposal will come before the Oversight Committee Wednesday.

“Possibly the broadest expansion of extraterritorial surveillance power since the FBI’s inception,” Ahmed Ghappour, a computer law specialist at the University of California-Hastings College of the Law who will address the committee next week. Currently the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure only allow magistrate judges to issue search warrants within their jurisdiction, some narrow exceptions can be applied.

“Criminals are increasingly using sophisticated technology when they engage in crime over the Internet,” the FBI said.
And cyber crime investigations often involve searching multiple computers simultaneously in different jurisdictions. The rules don’t “directly address” those “increasingly common situations,” the FBI noted.

The government seeks to conduct its searches using techniques that are a serious risk to cybersecurity, and that may fail the Fourth Amendment’s unreasonable search and seizure test.

There have been numerous government programs that have violated our privacy rights. The FBI has created fake accounts on many social accounts to try to lure in unsuspecting individuals, which this was originally started to be used to find online sexual predators. Now they have taken pictures from real identities and created accounts, pretending to be them.

As you sit back and think, yes we need to do all we can to catch every predator online that we can, can you say that while allowing the FBI to have no rules? Knowing at any moment it could be your identity they might possibly use, your child’s, husbands, etc? There is a nice thought to everything if that is how we want to see it (blindly), in reality, we can clearly see just how far this goes!

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