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The Federal Communications Commission, responding to revelations that the US Marshals Service had used informants to monitor the communication영천출장안마s of political leaders, on Thursday began allowing a temporary rollback to the law’s controversial program.
The move, which comes as lawmakers in both parties are demanding changes, allows for an unlimited period of time the agency may place targeted phone and e-mail lists under scrutiny in response to a “no fly, no pay” list,안마 although the number of people on the list must not exceed 30,000.
“With the help of an extensive investigation of existing information sharing arrangements with the FBI, the Federal Communications Commission has determined that the information sharing provided by the agency to law enforcement should cease,” FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said in a statement.
The US Marshals Service began using a warrantless, secret domestic surveillance program in 2007 with the express purpose of surveilling political dissidents, some of whom were 마닐라카지노arrested and jailed.
After widespread criticism of the program, and a number of recent court victories, President Barack Obama imposed a series of changes to the program, but they have not yet been approved by Congress.
Republican legislators have sought to reverse some of the more controversial changes, in order to get the controversial warrantless program off the ground.
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On Thursday, Congress responded in part by approving a law that bans the use of the domestic surveillance program, including a measure barring the government from creating databases for targeted electronic communications. The law also bans the government from sharing information with other agencies, including state and local law enforcement, which often use the surveillance program on criminal cases.
The law has drawn widespread criticism, and even led to accusations of government overreach.
The government used to be able to use such information to target phone calls, but that had been discontinued under a 2001 amendment to a statute requiring that federal officials turn over records if a person is on a no-fly or restricted list.
The current law, though, was signed into law in 2002 and requires that only the secret information on US-based targets be kept for seven years. Under that law, the US Marshals Service is not allowed to share it with other federal and state law enforcement agencies.
However, the FCC, under the authority of the Telecommunications Act, is allowed to conduct data retention programs under a separate section called “the so-called ‘no-fly’ list.”
In 2010, the agency used the secret program t