Stewart Baker asks, “who deserves the credit for killing the [cybersecurity] bill? Or the blame, if we suffer a significant attack on our civilian infrastructure before Congress returns to the issue? On the lobbying side, I’d nominate two candidates.” Stewart’s candidates? The Chamber of Commerce and …. wait for it…. privacy activists. You can read…
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Nadler, Conyers Propose Critical Reforms to Cloud Computing Privacy Laws
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, and Congressman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), the Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Modernization Act of 2012 in order to bring the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) up to…
Cyber bill shouldn’t gut private contracts
Berin Szoka & Ryan Radia write: Days before August recess, Senate Democrats are scrambling to pass legislation creating a new federal bureaucracy to set supposedly “voluntary” standards for cybersecurity. The bill, spearheaded by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), also gives companies sweeping immunity from being sued for a range of actions aimed at countering cyber threats. While Senate…
Critics urge Congress to undo Supreme Court privacy decision
From Legal Times: A panel of lawyers urged Congress Tuesday to adopt legislation that would undo the Supreme Court’s decision in Federal Aviation Administration v. Cooper, which found in March that someone whose medical information was shared by government agencies could not recover emotional damages. In a wide-ranging discussion on the status of the federal government’s…