Check out this blog post from our national Washington Legislative Office on the bipartisan push for digital due process rights:
It's a big week for reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a little-known law which safeguards internet communications but hasn't been touched in nearly 30 years.
Yesterday the ACLU joined Americans for Tax Reform to push for an update to the law, and today Sen. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) introduced a bipartisan bill that would do just that. The bill would require police to get a warrant before accessing email and all other online communications, like Facebook posts or photos we store in the cloud with Google, Yahoo, or any other provider. In addition, the House Judiciary Committee began a series of hearings today on updating ECPA.
Just today in Augusta we lobbied for greater privacy protections for your location information. As Shenna Bellows said in our press release:
It’s no longer acceptable to say ‘if you want to protect your privacy, don’t use the technology.' Cell phones and GPS devices are unavoidable necessities of modern life for most people, and using them should not make us subject to unchecked monitoring by the police.
