{"id":1931917,"date":"2023-05-16T13:56:12","date_gmt":"2023-05-16T17:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-unanimously-passes-bill-limiting-federal-government-access-to-phone-email-data\/"},"modified":"2023-05-16T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-05-16T18:00:30","slug":"house-unanimously-passes-bill-limiting-federal-government-access-to-phone-email-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-unanimously-passes-bill-limiting-federal-government-access-to-phone-email-data\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill passed to limit government access to phone and email data."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-unanimously-passes-bill-limiting-federal-government-access-to-phone-email-data%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1931917&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The U.S. House of Representatives Passes Bill to Protect Personal Data<\/h2>\n<h3>Unanimous Vote for NDO Fairness Act<\/h3>\n<p>The U.S. House of Representatives has taken a major step towards protecting the privacy of American citizens. On May 15, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-passes-40b-ukraine-aid-package-moves-to-senate\/\" title=\"House passes B Ukraine aid package, moves to Senate\">lower chamber passed<\/a> the NDO Fairness Act in a unanimous 412\u20130 vote. Sponsored by Reps. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) and Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the bill aims to restrict the federal government\u2019s access to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/firefighters-who-shared-photos-of-kobe-bryant-crash-site-could-soon-be-fired\/\" title=\"Firefighters Who Shared Photos Of Kobe Bryant Crash Site Could Soon Be Fired\">personal cell phone<\/a> and email data.<\/p>\n<h3>Current Law and NDOs<\/h3>\n<p>Under current law, prosecutors can request email and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jan-6-committee-issues-first-subpoenas-to-four-trump-aides-allies\/\" title=\"Jan. 6 Committee Issues First Subpoenas To Four Trump Aides, Allies\">cell phone records<\/a> from individuals who are not suspected of any criminal behavior. These requests are often accompanied by Non-Disclosure Orders (NDOs), which have come under scrutiny in 2021. It was revealed that prosecutors had used NDOs to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-unanimously-passes-bill-limiting-federal-government-access-to-phone-email-data\/\" title=\"Bill passed to limit government access to phone and email data.\">search major outlet journalists<\/a> and members of Congress.<\/p>\n<h3>Strengthening Legislative Safeguards<\/h3>\n<p>The NDO Fairness Act would strengthen legislative safeguards against the misuse of NDOs by prosecutors. It would require them to prove to a court that a \u201csubstantially adverse event\u201d would be likely from failure to issue an NDO. The bill would also require stricter scrutiny of such gag orders and limit them to a 30-day window, with opportunities for additional 30-day extensions as needed.<\/p>\n<h3>Bolstering Privacy Protections<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe federal government has abused its authority to access the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-china-is-stealing-dna-of-u-s-citizens\/\" title=\"Report: China is Stealing DNA of U.S. Citizens\">personal data<\/a> of individuals under investigation,\u201d said Fitzgerald. \u201cThis legislation would bolster privacy protections to be comparable to those in a physical office or workplace while providing a much-needed check on the federal government\u2019s surveillance authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nadler added, \u201cIn the 21st century, federal prosecutors no longer need to rely on secrecy orders to conduct investigations. This bill will ensure that NDOs are used only when necessary and with proper oversight.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Americans in Criminal Investigations<\/h3>\n<p>Nadler emphasized that the abuse of secrecy orders is not limited to Congress. Schools, local governments, Fortune 500 companies, and countless others have had their data swept up by investigators looking to sidestep the basic protections afforded to Americans in criminal investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The NDO Fairness Act is a crucial step towards protecting the privacy of American citizens and ensuring that their personal data is not misused by the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill on May 15 that would limit the federal government&#8217;s access to personal cell phone and email data. The legislation was sponsored by Reps. Scott Fitzgerald (R-Wis.) and Jerry McNerney (D-Calif.) and received support from both parties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":1931918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[8343,6441,4077,5045,6612,7992,3736],"class_list":["post-1931917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-access","tag-data","tag-email","tag-government","tag-limit","tag-passed","tag-phone"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1931917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1931918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1931917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1931917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1931917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}