Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is moving to prevent a controversial expansion of the federal government’s hacking powers.
The privacy hawk in the coming week is expected to unveil legislation blocking a Justice Department request to allow judges to grant a single warrant for electronic searches in multiple locations — even when investigators don’t know the physical location of a device.
The Justice Department, which has been working for years on getting the change, insists the revision to what’s known as Rule 41 is a necessary update to match the realities of modern digital investigations.
