Internet privacy laws affect the way your information is collected and shared
The post today is the first four of a series that takes you four privacy laws on the Internet. These laws are either under discussion or may soon come to deliberation. These bills and efforts are to review existing laws that dictate how companies share digital information and what powers the federal government has an online data obtained
Electronic Communication Privacy Act personal information (ECPA) -. This law was passed in 1986 to expand and revise the federal wiretaps and wiretap provisions. Its purpose was seen as creating "a balance between the expectations of the citizens' privacy and the legitimate needs of law enforcement."
Since the ECPA has not changed to adapt to the dramatic changes in technology that has happened since the mid-eighties, electronic communication does not receive the same legal protection as physical documents . "A letter of paper sitting in your home or desk drawer has a significantly higher level of constitutional protection in relation to e-mail now," said Robert Holleyman, president of the Business Software Alliance, which supports the changes to ECPA to strengthen consumer and business privacy.
essentially, the ECPA allows the government to obtain access to digital communications, including email, Facebook messages, the information sits in the databases of your public cloud provider, and a variety of other files with only a subpoena and not a mandate once those items are older than 180 days
This table illustrates the different treatment contents of an e-mail at different times :.
as an example of how information companies return to government Google recently reported: July-December 2012 they received 21.389 US government requests for information on 33,634 users
Patrick Leahy, judiciary Committee chairman believes the ECPA is out of date and pushed the legislation. to revise it. "It will be a struggle. But I think people realize that they should not give up their ability to use the Internet while at the same time keep their freedom," Leahy said in a recent speech to the Georgetown University Law Center.
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