Alex Howard covers yesterday’s Senate hearing on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). He includes a lot of the materials as well as some videos, including a good interview with Chris Soghoian. Don’t miss it on gov20.govfresh.
Category: Laws
House hearing on ECPA this morning
The House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties is holding a hearing today at 11:00 am in 2141 Rayburn House Office Building: “Hearing on: ECPA Reform and the Revolution in Cloud Computing” You can watch the webcast here. Yesterday’s Senate hearing created the impression that ECPA reform is likely to…
FTC Testifies on Data Security Legislation
The Federal Trade Commission today told a Senate Subcommittee that it supports proposed legislation that would require many companies to use reasonable data security policies and procedures and require those companies to notify consumers when there is a security breach. In testimony before the Committee on Science, Commerce, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product…
Repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ is inevitable
Privacy lawyer Christopher Wolf has this commentary on CNN: Senate Republicans successful in blocking the repeal Tuesday of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the military’s discriminatory policy on gays and lesbians in the military, obviously did not read or simply chose to ignore a California federal judge’s ruling several weeks ago that the policy violates fundamental…