Senators fail to block rules allowing U.S. law-enforcement hacking
Three senators' efforts to stop a major expansion of U.S. law enforcement agencies' hacking powers has failed for now.
Proposed changes to Rule 41, the search-and-seizure provision in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, will go into effect Thursday barring any last-minute action in Congress.
The rules change will give U.S. law enforcement agencies the authority to cross jurisdictional lines and hack computers anywhere in the world during criminal investigations. Until now, the rules, in most cases, prohibited federal judges from issuing a search warrant outside their jurisdictions.
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