{"id":13950,"date":"2014-10-29T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13950"},"modified":"2014-10-29T15:00:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T20:00:06","slug":"the-guardian-fbi-demands-new-powers-to-hack-into-computers-and-carry-out-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13950","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian: FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2014\/oct\/29\/fbi-powers-hacking-computers-surveillance\">FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance<\/a> by Ed Pilkington:<\/p>\n<p>Agency requests rule change but civil liberties groups say \u2018extremely invasive\u2019 technique amounts to unconstitutional power grab<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI is attempting to persuade an obscure regulatory body in Washington to change its rules of engagement that would grant it significant new powers to hack into and carry out surveillance of computers throughout the US and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Civil liberties groups warn that the proposed rule change amounts to a power grab by the agency that would ride roughshod over strict limits to searches and seizures laid out under the fourth amendment of the US constitution, as well as violating first amendment privacy rights. They have protested that the FBI is seeking to transform its cyber capabilities with minimal public debate and with no congressional oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian: FBI demands new powers to hack into computers and carry out surveillance by Ed Pilkington: Agency requests rule change but civil liberties groups say \u2018extremely invasive\u2019 technique amounts to unconstitutional power grab The FBI is attempting to persuade &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=13950\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13950"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13951,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13950\/revisions\/13951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}