Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced bipartisan legislation Tuesday to strengthen the 27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and better protect digital privacy rights. “No one could have imagined just how the Internet and mobile technologies would transform how we communicate and exchange information today,” Leahy said of…
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This morning in the House: ECPA Part 1: Lawful Access to Stored Content
This morning’s hearing of the House Judiciary Committee begins at 10 am ET and will be webcast. Witness List: Elana Tyrangiel Department of Justice Richard Littlehale Tennessee Bureau of Investigation Orin Kerr George Washington University Law School Richard P. Salgado Google, Inc. Post corrected.
Feds: No Warrant Needed to Track Your Car With a GPS Device
David Kravets writes: The President Barack Obama administration is claiming that authorities do not need court warrants to affix GPS devices to vehicles to monitor their every move. The administration maintains that position despite the Supreme Court’s infamous decision last year that concluded that attaching the GPS devices amounted to search protected by the Constitution. The administration…
Justice Department bends on (some) e-mail privacy fixes
Declan McCullagh reports: The Obama administration has dropped its insistence that police should be able to warrantlessly peruse Americans’ e-mail correspondence. But at the same time, the Justice Department is advancing new proposals that would expand government surveillance powers over e-mail messages, Twitter direct messages, and Facebook direct messages in other ways. Read more on CNET.