On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on HR 2471: a bill that will update a 1986 law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). The original law was written years before the World Wide Web became a real thing that millions of people around the world use, and its authors didn't anticipate the explosion of mobile technologies or consumer data giants like Google and Facebook. As our own Joshua Kopstein pointed out, the sole reference point for our government's guidelines on data privacy is more than two decades old. While that doesn't seem like a lot of time up against the entire span of American civilization, it's an eternity in the age of the internet — a gap that's caused problems for citizens and law...
via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/27/3698002/ecpa-thursday-vote-senate-privacy
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