By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The Supreme Court on Thursday gave the FBI more authority to hack into computers beginning in December.
Until then, Congress can adopt legislation to undermine the court’s decision, the Intercept reports.
Before the ruling, magistrate judges were prohibited from approving a warrant request to search a computer unless the computer was inside the judge’s jurisdiction.
Under the ruling, the FBI would be able to gain a warrant to search a computer anywhere in the country, regardless of jurisdiction.
Privacy advocates weren’t happy.
“Whatever euphemism the FBI uses to describe it—whether they call it a ‘remote access search’ or a ‘network investigative technique’—what we’re talking about is government hacking, and this obscure rule change would authorize a whole lot more of it,” Kevin Bankston, director of Open Technology Institute, said in a press release.
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