The efforts to reform ECPA — the Electronic Communications and Privacy Act — have been going on for basically two decades at this point. The law, which was passed in 1986, has a whole bunch o...
https://www.techdirt.com/2017/02/07/congress-tries-once-again-to-require-warrants-to-search-emails/
S-356-Sessions2-HEN16529 (PDF) S-356-Sessions2-HEN16529 (Text)
One of the more interesting things to sneak out around the edges of the FBI’s redaction bars in Yahoo’s document dump of National Security Letters was the sheer amount of information the agen...
The annual intelligence authorization is under way, with the Senate deciding how much money the nation’s spy agencies will receive next year, along with anything else they can slip in while no ...
Hey, remember last week, when lots of folks were super excited about the US House of Representatives unanimously voting in favor of the Email Privacy Act? They voted 419 to 0. That kinda thing do...
The push to reform ECPA — the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — have been going on basically as long as this site has been in existence (i.e. nearly 20 years). There are lots of problem...
ECPA-Complaint (PDF) ECPA-Complaint (Text)
https://www.techdirt.com/2016/04/15/microsoft-sues-government-over-ecpa-enabled-gag-orders/
We’ve been talking about and asking for ECPA reform for many, many years, and it might finally be moving forward. ECPA is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which details how the govern...
For a long time now, we’ve been talking about the need for ECPA reform. ECPA — the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — is a truly outdated piece of law that law enforcement regularly ab...
The Obama administration must be doing a little housecleaning in preparation for the 2016 winner. After months of highly-sporadic and belated responses to We The People petitions, it’s answered...