Fact check: Senators did not OK 'access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant'

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The claim: 37 senators 'voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant.' Our ruling: Partly false

Claim: 37 senators"voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant."Some provisions of the 2001 Patriot Act — which greatly expanded government intelligence gathering in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks — expired earlier this year amid GOP gridlock.

The legislation has drawn criticism over the breadth of surveillance it enables, particularly after classified documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013 revealed phone record metadata collected on a massive scale.May 14 — making changes that sent the bill back to the House. Before final passage, though, the Senate by the narrowest of margins defeated an amendment that would have limited access to internet browser and search histories.

The post from Being Libertarian named the senators who opposed the amendment — including House Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Tim Kaine, D-Va. — and said this: “Here's the list of senators who sold out your freedoms. They all voted for federal agencies to have access to your internet history without obtaining a warrant.”Senate passes FISA deal reauthorizing key surveillance powersThe statement implies this was a vote to enable internet history access without a warrant. The government has actually been able to do that for nearly 20 years.

That was among many powers granted by the 2001 Patriot Act. Section 215 can be used to compel third parties to produce information related to intelligence investigations .

 

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My ruling is this article is unecessarly long and tedious to the point few will read entirely or even comprehend by choice. Do better or just shut tfu

So partly true

They’d have to scroll through a lot of porn history to get what they want😂

When will they explain the entire details to the country then? This dribbling of information out of D.C. has got to stop. When I'm not told the whole story it makes me wonder why!

Tor browser ftw

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