{"id":22209,"date":"2016-05-19T15:07:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22209"},"modified":"2016-05-19T15:07:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T20:07:55","slug":"the-hill-dem-introduces-bill-to-block-new-government-hacking-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22209","title":{"rendered":"The Hill: Dem introduces bill to block new government hacking powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/cybersecurity\/280568-wyden-introduces-bill-to-block-expanded-government-hacking-powers\">Dem introduces bill to block new government hacking powers<\/a> by Katie Bo Williams:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) on Thursday introduced a bill that would block an expansion of the Justice Department&#8217;s hacking powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the public realizes what is at stake, I think there is going to be a massive outcry: Americans will look at Congress and say, \u2018What were you thinking?\u2019\u201d Wyden wrote in a Medium post announcing the legislation.<\/p>\n<p>The DOJ has proposed amendments to a little-known criminal procedure rule that would take effect in December and expand their hacking powers unless Congress acts.<br \/>\nWyden&#8217;s one-page bill, the Stopping Mass Hacking Act, would prevent those changes to what&#8217;s known as Rule 41.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hill: Dem introduces bill to block new government hacking powers by Katie Bo Williams:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-f-r-crim-p-41"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22210,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22209\/revisions\/22210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}