“A Senate proposal touted as protecting Americans’ e-mail privacy has been quietly rewritten, giving government agencies more surveillance power than they possess under current law,” reported computing website CNET on Tuesday morning. That’s quite a reversal of fortune for the bill, sponsored by Senate Judiciary chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT).  He originally said the purpose of the bill was … Continue reading Senate email privacy bill mutates, to the alarm of civil libertarians