With tens of thousands of domestic commercial drone licenses expected to be handed out in the coming years, Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), co-Chair of the Bi-Partisan Congressional Privacy Caucus, today introduced updated legislation to ensure standards for informing the public and establish safeguards to protect the privacy of individuals from expanded use of drones….
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Leahy, Lee Introduce Legislation To Update Electronic Communications Privacy Act
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…
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…