Senators introduce bill to block expansion of FBI hacking authority

U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) boards an elevator as he departs after the weekly party caucus luncheons at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 23, 2015. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON: A small group of bipartisan senators introduced a bill that would block a pending judicial rule change allowing US judges to issue search warrants for remote access to computers in any jurisdiction, even overseas, arguing the change would expand the FBI’s hacking authority. 

The one-page legislation from Democratic Senator Ron Wyden and Republican Senator Rand Paul would undo the change, adopted by the US Supreme Court in a private vote last month and without congressional involvement, to procedural rules governing the court system.