Congress Must Enact ECPA Reform Legislation This Year EFF applauds Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) for today introducing the ECPA Modernization Act of 2017 to protect user privacy in cloud content and geolocation information. As part… Read More ›
Tag Archive for ‘Legislative Analysis’
Opponents Hope to Mislead California’s Legislators Before They Vote on Broadband Privacy Next Week
The large broadband providers and their associations who spent millions in Washington, D.C. to repeal broadband privacy just a few months ago in Congress are fighting to protect their victory in California. They are throwing every superficial argument against A.B…. Read More ›
Californians: Demand That Your Legislature Restore Your Broadband Privacy Rights
Two state Senate committees will hear and vote on A.B 375 next week, legislation that will restore your broadband privacy rights. Update: The Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development Committee has since waived jurisdiction over the bill, so it will face… Read More ›
Californians: Demand a Vote on Your Broadband Privacy Before the Telecom Lobby Runs Out the Clock
What do they do when they can’t win the vote? Try to Stop a Vote. Right now, politicians in Sacramento are holding up a bill that would restore your broadband privacy rights and directly reject Congress and the Trump Administration’s… Read More ›
Let’s Make The Copyright Office Less Political, Not More
After three years of discussing changes to copyright law, Congress’s first bill is a strange one. House and Senate Judiciary Committee leaders have introduced a bill that would radically change the way the Register of Copyrights is picked – taking… Read More ›
A Dangerous California Bill Would Leave Students and Teachers Vulnerable to Intrusive Government Searches
A dangerous bill in California would make it easy for the government to search the cell phones and online accounts of students and teachers. A.B. 165 rips away crucial protections for the more than 6-million Californians who work at and… Read More ›
Sen. Wyden: Border Searches of Digital Devices Should Require a Warrant
This week Sen. Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary John Kelly stating that he will soon introduce legislation that would require law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before searching the data on digital… Read More ›
Congress Contemplates Making it Illegal to Protect Consumer Privacy Online
Cable and telephone companies are pushing Congress to make it illegal for the federal government to protect online consumer privacy. When you go online you reveal a tremendous amount of private information about yourself. What you browse, what you purchase,… Read More ›
EFF to BART: Adopt Spy Tech Control Law
EFF urged the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Board to adopt a new law that would ensure community control of whether to adopt new surveillance technologies. All too often, police executives unilaterally decide to adopt powerful new spying tools that… Read More ›
Newly-Released Documents Show Hollywood Influenced the Copyright Office’s Comments on Set-Top Boxes
Months of aggressive lobbying by the MPAA and its allies at the Copyright Office gave them the result they desired In the current debate over cable set-top box competition, content and cable industries worked together to oppose regulation that could… Read More ›