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While the federal government needs a warrant to seize your laptop, it can access revealing details through what lawmakers say is a glaring back door: cloud-stored metadata, the information tucked within files that offers clues about who created them, when and how.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation to require governmental entities to obtain a warrant before requesting that an electronic communications provider disclose a customer's metadata, often referred to as data that describes other data.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting answers on the Department of Justice's use of secrecy orders, which prevent technology companies from informing their customers about government demands for their data.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after visiting the Vandenberg Space Force Base with Vice President Kamala Harris and other elected and military leaders on Monday.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Air Force veterans Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and Congressman Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin urging the Department of Defense to provide much-needed aircraft, air defense systems, and drones to Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that a number of his priorities to help veterans in Los Angeles and around the country were included in the 2022 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which was signed into law by President Biden last week.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmen Ted W. Lieu (D-CA-33) and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34) sent a criminal referral to Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that former President Donald Trump violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and Federal Election Commission regulations.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation to allow the West LA VA to collect $25 million from the Purple Line easement on campus. The money, which is lease revenue generated from the Los Angeles Leasing Act of 2016, is not presently directed to go directly to the West LA VA.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or MORE Act. If enacted, this bipartisan bill will decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, while enabling states to set their own regulatory policies without threat of federal intervention.