Salmon Reintroduces ECPA Surveillance Reform Bill
Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz., introduced the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act (ECPA) (HR-283), a Salmon news release said Thursday. The bill, which both Salmon and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., introduced in the 113th Congress, would require a warrant for…
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a government entity to obtain personal electronic data, it said. (See Leahy’s bill, S-607, here.) “The message is simple: Get a warrant,” Salmon said in the release: “The same procedures law enforcement uses to investigate dangerous criminals and prevent acts of terrorism should apply to people’s digital lives -- as should the same protections.”