Update: Senator Leahy denies that he is supporting changes described by CNET, below. At 1:01 today, his office tweeted: Ideas from many sources always circulate b4 a markup 4 disc., but Sen.Leahy does NOT support such an exception for #ECPA search warrants and: The whole point of the Leahy reforms is 2 require search warrants 4 govt…
Category: U.S.
As CIA Chief Scandal Looms, Lawmakers Consider Tightening E-Mail Privacy
David Kravetz reports: The Senate Judiciary Committee announced Thursday that it will be voting Nov. 29 on whether to advance legislation that would require authorities to obtain a probable-cause warrant to get access to all e-mail and other content stored in the cloud, just as a warrant is required to search a car or house….
Obtaining Stored Email for Government Investigations
Marc Zwillinger writes: Occasionally, a mainstream press story gets enough attention to shine a brighter light on the privacy issues that we at ZwillGen deal with every day. This happened when General Wesley Clark’s cell phone records were obtained, which led to a Congressional Investigation and an eventual overhaul of the FCC’s CPNI rules –…
No one’s safe from unfettered domestic surveillance. No one.
As a privacy advocate, you might have expected me to blog about the Broadwell-Petraeus-Kelley-Allen scandal, with emphasis on the federal govt’s ability or legal authority to snoop through the records of people who seemingly have committed no crime. So how did the FBI get authorization to snoop? Well, it turns out that they really didn’t…