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SOPA 2 - PASSED

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Johan Holmsgren

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Dec 12, 2014, 5:40:58 PM12/12/14
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New law allowing warrant-less mass surveillance for all electronic
communication ,and 5 year data retention (unless its encrypted or
"suspicious", then it might be forever). This was sneaked in bill HRT4681,
and has passed Congress and Senate.

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/breaking-congress-secretly-okd-nsa-spying-domestic-criminal-cases-focused-torture/

http://thehill.com/policy/technology/226752-gop-rep-attempted-late-bid-to-kill-spy-bill

Here is the bill, relevant section is 309:
https://www.congress.gov/113/bills/hr4681/BILLS-113hr4681enr.pdf

Hopefullt Obama will veto it, but we need as much awareness to this as
possible.
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