{"id":19127,"date":"2015-10-09T06:28:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19127"},"modified":"2015-10-09T06:33:23","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T11:33:23","slug":"wired-california-now-has-the-nations-best-digital-privacy-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19127","title":{"rendered":"Wired: California Now Has the Nation\u2019s Best Digital Privacy Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/2015\/10\/california-now-nations-best-digital-privacy-law\/\">California Now Has the Nation\u2019s Best Digital Privacy Law<\/a> by Kim Zetter<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>CALIFORNIA CONTINUED ITS long-standing tradition for forward-thinking privacy laws today when Governor Jerry Brown signed a sweeping law protecting digital privacy rights.<\/p>\n<p>The landmark Electronic Communications Privacy Act bars any state law enforcement agency or other investigative entity from compelling a business to turn over any metadata or digital communications\u2014including emails, texts, documents stored in the cloud\u2014without a warrant. It also requires a warrant to track the location of electronic devices like mobile phones, or to search them.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, which easily passed the Legislature last month, is the most comprehensive in the country, says the ACLU.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>eff.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/10\/victory-california-gov-brown-signs-calecpa-requiring-police-get-warrant-accessing\">Victory in California! Gov. Brown Signs CalECPA, Requiring Police to Get a Warrant Before Accessing Your Data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/document\/calecpa-bill-language\">California&#8217;s Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA) &#8211; SB 178<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wired: California Now Has the Nation\u2019s Best Digital Privacy Law by Kim Zetter CALIFORNIA CONTINUED ITS long-standing tradition for forward-thinking privacy laws today when Governor Jerry Brown signed a sweeping law protecting digital privacy rights. The landmark Electronic Communications Privacy &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=19127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail","category-ecpa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19127"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19130,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19127\/revisions\/19130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}