The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to mark up a bill...
The Senate Judiciary Committee plans to mark up a bill to loosen video privacy laws at 10 a.m. Nov. 29 in Room 226 Dirksen, the committee said Thursday. Separately, Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., tweeted: “The Senate Judiciary Committee’s focus will…
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be on updating technology laws, incl. #ECPA & #VPPA, in our post-Thanksgiving markup meeting.” He'd said earlier this week the bill wouldn’t be marked up this Congress (CD Nov 15 p15). In September, the committee postponed its markup of HR-2471, a House-passed bill that would update the Video Privacy Protection Act to let companies like Netflix share users’ viewing choices with their permission. Leahy delayed a vote on the bill after law enforcement agencies spoke out against his amendment to reform the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The provision would require the government to notify individuals when their email or personal information is disclosed by ISPs to law enforcement and provide them with a copy of the search warrant. State, local and federal law enforcement agencies said the Leahy amendment would increase the burdens of obtaining electronic communications necessary to catch criminals. A spokesman for Ranking Member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, did not comment.