Congress should work to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act...
Congress should work to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA) said Monday. The House Crime Subcommittee plans a Tuesday hearing on the law. ECPA establishes a legal framework with “a complex and…
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baffling set of rules” that are “both difficult to explain and to apply in this age of networked and cloud computing,” SIIA President Ken Wasch said in a statement. Congress should “work with all deliberate speed to enact legislation creating a warrant requirement for law enforcement access to remotely stored electronic content,” he continued. “It is critical to level the playing field for information Americans store in the cloud, ensuring that it receives the same protection as the information they store in their homes."