FBI Wants Your Search History
The Obama administration is seeking to expand the investigatory powers given to the FBI and amend surveillance legislation to give the Bureau explicit authority to access a suspect’s internet browsing history and all electronic data without a warrant in cases related terrorism and spying.
FBI Director James Comey painted the moves as an attempt to fix “a typo” in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which he claims has caused some tech firms to prevent the FBI from accessing data Congress has intended them to.
Tech firms and privacy advocates say that the FBI is seeking an expansion of powers that severely infringes in the right to privacy of American citizens.
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