Bonnie Warshuk reports: With a growing number of school boards advising parents not to give the state their children’s Social Security numbers, the law could be headed for repeal next year in Augusta, the Maine Civil Liberties Union said Thursday. So far, school committees in 14 cities and towns have voted to recommend parents not…
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Pointer: More on today’s hearings on ECPA reform
Alex Howard has updated his coverage of the Congressional hearings on updating Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to include today’s witnesses. Read the story and watch the interviews on O’Reilly Radar.
Testimony in today’s House hearing on ECPA
The written testimony of today’s witnesses on ECPA reform is available online at http://judiciary.house.gov/hearings/hear_100923.html. The first panel of the day consisted of representatives of major cloud service providers and they provided a fairly uniform message to the committee: treat all e-mail equally, regardless of whether it is open, unopened, or residing in the cloud…
Microsoft Seeks New U.S. Electronic Privacy Laws to Propel Cloud Computing
Sara Forden reports on some of the testimony at yesterday’s Senate hearing on ECPA reform: Microsoft Corp. is urging U.S. lawmakers to overhaul laws for electronic privacy to help new services such as cloud computing, a technology that may double sales in five years. As more data is stored on remote servers and away from…