Shielding “the cloud” from the government
A broad coalition of tech companies and organizations spanning the political spectrum, including the ACLU and Americans for Tax Reform, have formed a group called Digital Due Process to push Congress to strengthen online privacy laws, The Wall Street Journal reports. In particular, the group will lobby Congress to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, passed in 1986, years before the Internet gained widespread use and more than two decades before the advent of “cloud-based” computing. Currently information stored in the cloud can be accessed through a simple subpoena, whereas Digital Due Process is pushing for a requirement of a search warrant showing probably cause. So, should there be stricter privacy protections for the cloud? Or is this data somehow different from other personal information?
-Marc
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