{"id":26506,"date":"2017-03-31T06:14:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26506"},"modified":"2017-03-31T06:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T11:14:00","slug":"wapo-congresss-vote-to-eviscerate-internet-privacy-could-give-the-fbi-massive-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26506","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Congress\u2019s vote to eviscerate Internet privacy could give the FBI massive power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/congresss-vote-to-eviscerate-internet-privacy-could-give-the-fbi-massive-power\/2017\/03\/30\/0feae55e-1550-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-c%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.a5f7016cdeb7\">Congress\u2019s vote to eviscerate Internet privacy could give the FBI massive power<\/a> by Paul Ohm:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many are outraged about congressional efforts to eviscerate Internet privacy regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama. But a frightening aspect to the bill remains underappreciated: If signed, it could result in the greatest legislative expansion of the FBI\u2019s surveillance power since 2001\u2019s Patriot Act.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t believe anyone who suggests that the law merely returns us to the state of the world before the FCC finalized its landmark privacy rules in October. The obvious reason Internet service providers burned through time, money, political capital and customer goodwill to push for this law was to ask for a green light to engage in significantly more user surveillance than they had ever before had the audacity to try.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Congress\u2019s vote to eviscerate Internet privacy could give the FBI massive power by Paul Ohm: Many are outraged about congressional efforts to eviscerate Internet privacy regulations set by the Federal Communications Commission under President Barack Obama. But a frightening &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=26506\">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":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506","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=26506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26507,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26506\/revisions\/26507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}