Warner Todd Huston writes: Did you know that there are no laws to prevent government agencies from raiding your computer’s remotely hosted back up files, your third party emails, your cloud computing files, or your cell phone GPS location records? Well, there aren’t. As the law stands today government can go into your private computer…
Category: Laws
Democrats call for update to e-surveillance law
Grant Gross reports: Congress needs to rewrite a law governing law enforcement access to mobile-phone data, e-mail messages and other electronic communications to reflect changes in technology, including a growing reliance on cloud computing, several senators said Wednesday. Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee called for changes to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA),…
Update on Mexico’s New Privacy Law: No Immediate Enforcement, But Companies Expected to Appoint Privacy Officer and Have Written Policies
Courtesy of BNA, here is a report on the update provided by Mexico’s Privacy (IFAI) President Commissioner Peschard Mariscal: Data Protection Mexico Will Not Rush to Compliance Review, Enforcement of New Law, DPA Chief Assures Mexico’s data protection authority will not rush to carry out compliance inspections or take enforcement actions when rules implementing the…
CA: State senator’s Do Not Track bill on Internet data
James Temple reports: A California state senator on Monday unveiled a bill that would force Internet companies doing business in the state to allow local consumers to opt out of online monitoring, adding to the building momentum behind a “Do Not Track” mandate. During a morning news conference in Sacramento, Sen. Alan Lowenthal, D-Long Beach,…