A new privacy law to replace the 27-year-old...
A new privacy law to replace the 27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act is necessary and could protect Americans’ access to their online content with a uniform standard for content access, said Orin Kerr, a George Washington University law professor and…
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cybercrime law expert. In a speech Monday at the Library of Congress (http://bit.ly/1bmruIx), Kerr discussed his recent article, “The Next Generation Privacy Act,” (http://1.usa.gov/14YH4oP) which details the history of ECPA, how, in his view, it has become irrelevant, and how to craft the law’s replacement legislation. “The incredible growth of the Internet and its rapid transformation from a toy to an essential part of daily life has made the accuracy and timeliness of the electronic privacy laws more important than ever before,” Kerr wrote. A new law should focus on “particularity and minimization,” he wrote, “and deal explicitly with the problem of extraterritoriality.” A consistent legal standard for content access would also eliminate the varying standards for government access to information depending on how old the data is, he said. From 1998 to 2001, Kerr worked for the Justice Department’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, where he wrote the agency’s manual on computer crimes (http://bit.ly/GztcbG).