A petition to the White House filed Wednesday...
A petition to the White House filed Wednesday attempts to restart the stalled debate over reforming the 27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Digital 4th, an industry and advocacy group coalition, came together in March to push Congress to pass an…
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ECPA modernization bill proposed by Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah (CD March 20 p10). The bill sought to protect electronic communications collected and maintained by third-party service providers (http://1.usa.gov/WBxwf7), and never made it out of committee. While Congress and the public may have gotten distracted by leaked reports about the National Security Agency’s surveillance work, ECPA also means “the IRS and hundreds of other agencies can read our communications without a warrant,” said the petition. “We call on the Obama Administration to support ECPA reform and to reject any special rules that would force online service providers to disclose our email without a warrant."