{"id":5399,"date":"2011-04-06T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:36:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-06T22:36:08","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5399","title":{"rendered":"CNET: “Justice Department opposes digital privacy reforms” on cloud computing protections"},"content":{"rendered":"

On CNET.com: Justice Department opposes digital privacy reforms<\/a> by Declan McCullagh <\/p>\n

The U.S. Justice Department today offered what amounts to a frontal attack on proposals to amend federal law to better protect Americans’ privacy. <\/p>\n

James Baker, the associate deputy attorney general, warned that rewriting a 1986 privacy law to grant cloud computing users more privacy protections and to require court approval before tracking Americans’ cell phones would hinder police investigations. <\/p>\n

This appears the first time that the Justice Department has publicly responded to a set of digital privacy proposals unveiled last year by a coalition of businesses and advocacy groups including AT&T, Google, Microsoft, eBay, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Americans for Tax Reform. <\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

The question at hand is rewriting the Electronic Communications Privacy Act<\/a>, or ECPA, which was enacted in the pre-Internet era of telephone modems and is so notoriously convoluted, it’s difficult even for judges to follow. <\/p>\n

The Digital Due Process coalition hopes to simplify the wording while requiring police to obtain a search warrant to access private communications and the locations of mobile devices–which is not always the case today. Under current law, Internet users enjoy more privacy rights if they store data locally, a legal hiccup that could slow the shift to cloud-based services unless it’s changed. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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