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Republicans and Democrats sternly warned the FBI on Tuesday that it could lose its broad power to collect telephone, e-mail and financial records to hunt terrorists after revelations of widespread abuses of the authority detailed in a recent internal investigation.Their threats came as the Justice Department s chief watchdog, Glenn
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A. Fine, told the House Judiciary Committee that the FBI engaged in widespread and serious misuse of its authority in illegally collecting the information from Americans and foreigners through so-called national security letters.If the FBI doesn t move swiftly to correct the mistakes
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and problems revealed last week in Fine s 130-page report, you probably won t have NSL authority, said Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., a supporter of the power, referring to the data requests by their initials. From the attorney general on down, you should be ashamed of yourself, said Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif. We stretched to try to give you the tools necessary to make America safe, and it is very, very clear that you ve abused that trust. If Congress revokes some of the expansive law enforcement powers it granted in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, Issa said, America may be less safe, but the Constitution will be more secure, and it will be because of your failure to deal with this in a serious fashion. The FBI s failure to establish sufficient controls or oversight for collecting the information constituted serious and un
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Eight of the largest companies in tech have joined forces to battle the NSA spying, demanding sweeping reforms of the US Government surveillance policies. AOL, Apple, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Twitter, and Yahoo have written and signed a letter to President Obama and Congress, which you can read online. According to The Hill, it will run in national print ads on Monday. Referring to itself as the Global Government Surveillance Reform, the campaign is the biggest, broadest and most populist attempt so far by the companies鈥攕ome of which are often at loggerheads with each other鈥攖o sway government policy. The letter outlines five guiding privacy principles the coalition wants to see implemented: limiting governments
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; authority to collect users ; information, oversight and accountability, transparency
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about government demands, respecting the free flow of information, and avoiding conflicts among governments. Voices from some of the largest companies lend weight to the letter. So, Larry Page explains: The security of users ; data is critical, which is why we ;ve invested so much in encryption and fight for transparency around government requests for information. This is undermined by the apparent wholesale collection of da
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ta, in secret and without independent oversight, by many governments around the world. It time for reform and we urge the US government to lead the way. While Mark Zuckerberg crows: 8220
