The Protecting the Rights of Individuals Act (S. 1552) requires that law enforcement agencies demonstrate a cause for suspicion before courts could issue authority to monitor certain telephone and Internet use and also seeks to limit the FBI's ability to review a person's personal data, including medical, library and Internet records.
The very need for an act to "Protect the Rights of Individuals" is a pretty sad indication of the state of our civil liberties in the digital age. Perhaps Senator Murkowski's just too polite to call it "The Compelling the Justice Department to Read the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution Act."
