Senators Introduce Bill to Block Expansion of FBI Hacking Authority

 

By Reuters

A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill Thursday that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing U.S. judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas, arguing the change would expand the FBI's hacking authority.

The one-page legislation from Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky would undo the change, adopted by the U.S. Supreme Court in a private vote last month and without congressional involvement, to procedural rules governing the court system. 

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