news.gnom.es: California Governor Signs Anti-Surveillance Bill

news.gnom.es: California Governor Signs Anti-Surveillance Bill:

California Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill prohibiting the state from supplying “material support, participation, or assistance” in response to certain federal requests for metadata and electronic communications.

The so-called Fourth Amendment Protection Act, introduced with bipartisan sponsorship in January to combat National Security Agency surveillance programs, was heavily revised in the state legislature, limiting its punch.

The new law prohibits the state from helping federal authorities acquire “electronically stored information or metadata of any person if the state has actual knowledge that the request constitutes an illegal or unconstitutional collection.”

Brown, a Democrat, did not issue a signing statement and his office did not immediately provide comment. The final version of the bill passed both chambers of the legislature without opposition in August after an earlier version won near-unanimous approval in the state Senate in May.

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