Via Orin Kerr, the discussion on ECPA reform held yesterday (2 hours):
Category: Laws
Web giants fight California privacy bill
Cecilia Kang reports: Web giants Facebook, Google, Twitter and Skype have banded together to oppose an online social networking privacy bill in California that would require users’ permission to display personal information such as home addresses and phone numbers. The bill, introduced last February by state Senate Majority Leader Ellen M. Corbett (D-San Leandro), started out…
EFF Applauds New Electronic Privacy Bill That Tells the Government: Come Back With a Warrant!
Kevin Bankston writes: Today, Senator Patrick Leahy introduced much-needed legislation to update the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986, a critically important but woefully outdated federal privacy law in desperate need of a 21st century upgrade. This ECPA Amendments Act of 2011 (S. 1011) would implement several of the reform principles advocated by EFF as part…
Senator Leahy introduces bill to update ECPA
This is one of the bills to watch this session: the ‘‘Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act of 2011’’. In his press release announcing the introduction of the bill, the Senator said: The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Amendments Act will make commonsense changes to existing law to improve privacy protections for consumers’ electronic communications and…