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sailingaway
05-01-2013, 11:53 AM
A US government task force is drafting FBI-backed legislation that would penalize companies like Google and Facebook for refusing to comply with wiretap orders, media report.

In the new legislation being drafted by US law enforcement officials, refusal to cooperate with the FBI could cost a tech company tens of thousands of dollars in fines, the Washington Post quoted anonymous sources as saying.

The fined company would be given 90 days to comply with wiretap orders. If the organization is unable or unwilling to turn over the communications requested by the wiretap, the penalty sum would double every day.

“We don’t have the ability to go to court and say, ‘We need a court order to effectuate the intercept.’ Other countries have that. Most people assume that’s what you’re getting when you go to a court,” FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann told the Washington Post.

If passed in Congress and signed by President Obama, the bill could become a provision of the 1968 Wiretap Act, which require companies to develop mechanisms for obtaining information requested by government investigators.

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kcchiefs6465
05-01-2013, 01:05 PM
Google denying a wiretap? Facebook? Lmao, if there was ever a time for the laughing Jack gif, that'd be it.

I'd assume they'd be referring to companies that don't routinely spy on you and/or help law enforcement willingly.

HOLLYWOOD
05-01-2013, 02:50 PM
Say Waaaaaaaaaaat?
new legislation being drafted by US law enforcement officials, refusal to cooperate with the FBI Who's writing the amendments to the Wiretap law? Again another bill labeled under "CONTROL" "SAFE" the old "to protect Your Azzes"
There's some conspiracy somewhere in there going on when you start looking up history: Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 aka (Wiretap Law of 1968)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Crime_Control_and_Safe_Streets_Act_of_1968

legislation passed by the Congress of the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_the_United_States) that established the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_Enforcement_Assistance_Administration) (LEAA). Title III of the Act set rules for obtaining wiretap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_tapping) orders in the United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States). It had been started shortly after November 22, 1963 when evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy) increased public alertness to the relative lack of control over the sale and possession of guns in the United States. The Omnibus Crime Bill also prohibited interstate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_commerce) trade in handguns (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handgun), increased the minimum age to 21 for buying handguns, and established a national gun licensing system.[2] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnibus_Crime_Control_and_Safe_Streets_Act_of_1968 #cite_note-brookings-2) This legislation was soon followed by the Gun Control Act of 1968 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_Control_Act_of_1968), which set forth additional gun control (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_control) restrictions.

Supreme Court (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States) decisions Berger v. New York (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berger_v._New_York), 388 U.S. 41 (1967) and Katz v. United States (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katz_v._United_States), 389 U.S. 347 (1967), which the Church Committee Report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Committee) on the FBI (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI)'s COINTELPRO (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO) program described as holding "that the Fourth Amendment (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution ) did apply to searches and seizures of conversations and protected all conversations of an individual as to which he had a reasonable expectation of privacy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_expectation_of_privacy)