{"id":17969,"date":"2015-07-08T17:24:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T22:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17969"},"modified":"2015-07-08T17:24:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T22:24:46","slug":"usa-today-new-privacy-debate-focuses-on-government-access-to-emails-texts-calls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17969","title":{"rendered":"USA Today: New privacy debate focuses on government access to emails, texts, calls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2015\/07\/08\/patriot-act-section-702-privacy-debate\/29823349\/\">New privacy debate focuses on government access to emails, texts, calls<\/a> by Erin Kelly:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2014 Now that Congress has ended the National Security Agency&#8217;s controversial dragnet of Americans&#8217; phone records, privacy advocates are pushing to curb a lesser-known surveillance power that allows the government to read the content of Americans&#8217; emails, cellphone conversations and other electronic communication.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., said the power, which comes from Section 702 of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, was supposed to be aimed at foreign nationals living outside the USA but has ended up being used to collect massive amounts of personal communication from Americans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA Today: New privacy debate focuses on government access to emails, texts, calls by Erin Kelly: WASHINGTON \u2014 Now that Congress has ended the National Security Agency&#8217;s controversial dragnet of Americans&#8217; phone records, privacy advocates are pushing to curb a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17969\">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-17969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969","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=17969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17970,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17969\/revisions\/17970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}