{"id":29657,"date":"2017-10-11T08:22:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29657"},"modified":"2017-10-11T08:22:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-11T13:22:21","slug":"techdirt-three-energy-bills-look-to-increase-fourth-amendment-protections-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=29657","title":{"rendered":"techdirt: Three Energy Bills Look To Increase Fourth Amendment Protections For Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20171001\/14020938328\/three-energy-bills-look-to-increase-fourth-amendment-protections-americans.shtml\">Three Energy Bills Look To Increase Fourth Amendment Protections For Americans<\/a> by Tim Cushing:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Senator Ron Wyden has introduced a trio of energy bills for the Senate&#8217;s consideration. The three bills each have their own area of focus.<\/p>\n<p>One bill [PDF] would direct the Department of Energy &#8212; along with state entities &#8212; to upgrade the flexibility and reliability of energy grids, thus limiting disruption during natural disasters. The second bill [PDF] creates grant programs for consumer-level renewable energy, providing incentives for purchase and deployment of solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient appliances. The third [PDF] tasks the DOE with leading the way for renewable energy storage R&#038;D in hopes of driving costs down and providing more affordable alternatives to non-renewable energy sources.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond their renewable energy focus, these three bills all have one thing in common: law enforcement agencies aren&#8217;t going to like them. Each bill contains language erecting warrant requirements for law enforcement access of consumer energy usage data.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>techdirt: Three Energy Bills Look To Increase Fourth Amendment Protections For Americans by Tim Cushing:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-surveillance-technology","category-third-party-doctrine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657","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=29657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29658,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29657\/revisions\/29658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}