by John Stanton. Senate backers of new protections against warrantless monitoring of private citizens’ emails said Wednesday that Congress has a good shot of passing digital privacy legislation next year — despite complaints that a bill passed last week didn't include the provisions. Although the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 29 passed a package of video ... MORE
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Showing posts with label communication. Show all posts
Will Congress Stop Warrantless E-Mail Snooping?
by John Stanton. Senate backers of new protections against warrantless monitoring of private citizens’ emails said Wednesday that Congress has a good shot of passing digital privacy legislation next year — despite complaints that a bill passed last week didn't include the provisions. Although the Senate Judiciary Committee on Nov. 29 passed a package of video ... MOREJacob Sullum: Fine Print In Government's Privacy Policy
How your life became an open e-book. In 1986 The American Banker defined E-mail as
"a trademark of CompuServe," Computerworld noted that
sending a single message required a 10-minute phone call, and
InfoWorld described "a pilot scheme that will allow users
of one system to send messages to mailbox holders on another." That
was the year ... MORETop Court To Hear Arguments Over Government Spying
by Terry Barnes. A debate over how freely the U.S. government can eavesdrop on international communications reaches a climax on Monday in the country's highest court. At issue is a law passed by Congress in 2008 allowing the government to monitor the overseas communications of individuals without obtaining a warrant for each target. ... MORE
Ed Black: Proposed Regulations Threaten Free Internet
We will have to fight to keep free internet. The Internet is the world’s biggest economic and social success story of the past three decades. Citizens, NGOs, engineers and governments have all have joined together to write an amazing narrative. That success story now is under threat. In Dubai this December a group of governments will conclude a treaty ... MORENY Times: The End Of Privacy?
The reasonable expectation of privacy does not exist anymore. Cellphones, e-mail, and online social networking have come to rule daily life, but Congress has done nothing to update federal privacy laws to better protect digital communication. That inattention carries a heavy price. Striking new data from wireless carriers collected by ... MORE
CIPSA Lacks Protections For Individual Rights
by Sharon Bradford Franklin. Congress should not pass CISPA. Although a carefully crafted information-sharing program that includes robust privacy safeguards could be an effective approach to cybersecurity, CISPA lacks such protections for individual rights. CISPA would appropriately authorize the federal government to share cyberthreat intelligence ... MORE
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