ACLU Wants to Stop the Expanded Use of Secret Searches
Congress is very close to giving government law enforcement agents even broader powers to force businesses to turn over sensitive private information about their customers without any judicial review.

Part of a little-noticed provision that is pending before a conference committee, the expanded powers would allow the government to access your travel records, car purchases, stock trades or other purchases and stop you from finding out that these records have been searched. The government could undertake these searches for loosely defined 'national security' purposes even if it has no reasonable suspicion that you were involved in a crime.

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