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300 sponsors? There is something else in that bill they want, I assure you.

Read it yourself, it's like 6 pages: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/699/...

Plenty of time for riders to get attached.

Then we watch it all the way through.

Or an anonymous hold that never ends.

This bill was extremely close to becoming law in 2013 before Snowden. The nice thing that happened in the meantime is we got a stronger law passed in California that applied to all digital service customer information and not just messages.

We think what the Intel Community wants in this bills is a PRISM like program for UK law enforcement and GCHQ.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/the-b...

ECPA already has "emergency" carve-outs in it, when a warrant is not required. If it's not restricted, it could easily be as abused as the NSLs are.

At the very least a judge should be able to retrospectively review the law enforcement request and all the data they got (and the company itself should have evidence of all of this as well).

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