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The fight to limit FBI hacking powers may have picked up a valuable ally. US Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) revealed this week that in the coming days he plans to co-sponsor legislation that would limit the ability of agents to get wide-reaching search warrants from US judge. The law would be a counter measure to recent proposed rule …

  1. Mark 85
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    I hope he can help get this one through and perhaps repair even a little bit of the train wreck that's been the US government lately.

  2. Anonymous Coward
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    Unfortunately both parties supporting such bills is common

    There's a lot of privacy overlap between liberal democrats libertarian conservatives. The problem is that there are never enough of them to overcome the pressure from party leaders on both sides to toe the law and order line of "we always need more spying".

  3. pAnoNymous

    Paul?

    Paul? My money was on St Paul.

    1. Paul Crawford Silver badge

      Re: Paul?

      Well one hopes they might have a moment of revelation on the road to Damascus...

  4. Marshalltown

    Small government

    Paul has been a "small government" advocate for a long time. He was also outraged at the revelations of the Snowden files, especially the joint "let's spy on each others citizens, since we can't do it ourselves legally" arrangement.

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