Ellen Nakashima reports: The Obama administration wants to require U.S. banks to report all electronic money transfers into and out of the country, a dramatic expansion in efforts to counter terrorist financing and money laundering. […] The proposal is a long-delayed response to the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, which specified reforms to…
Category: Laws
CALEA 2.0: U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet
An article by Charles Savage of the New York Times begins: Federal law enforcement and national security officials are preparing to seek sweeping new regulations for the Internet, arguing that their ability to wiretap criminal and terrorism suspects is “going dark” as people increasingly communicate online instead of by telephone. Essentially, officials want Congress to…
NZ: Gaps in privacy law raise data, cloud computing issues
Stephen Bell reports: A recent amendment to privacy law — the Privacy (Cross-Border Information) Amendment Act – aims at meeting conditions set by the European Union on the privacy of personal information sent to or through New Zealand. However, the Privacy Commissioner’s office acknowledges there are still holes in the protection of personal information that…
ECPA Reform – An Overview of Issues to be Considered
Andy Serwin writes: The Senate Judiciary Committee has been holding hearings on whether the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, ECPA, should be reformed. There are many who believe that ECPA reform is long over due, including the ACLU, in light of recent technological changes, particularly the increasing use of cloud computing, while there are some that…