Favorite This summer, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse introduced an amendment to the flawed Cyber Information Sharing Act (CISA) that would make it even worse, by expanding the broken Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA). EFF has proposed common sense changes to this federal anti-hacking law, many of which were included in “Aaron’s law,” recently reintroduced. While CISA was…
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The SEC’s Power Grab: Civil Agencies Try to Weaken ECPA Reform Legislation
Favorite As we anticipated in Monday’s post, Wednesday’s hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act focused on creating a loophole for civil law enforcement agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to access personal content stored by third-party service providers without a warrant, rather than on the need to raise the standard for…
Senate Judiciary Committee Finally Focuses on ECPA Reform
Favorite On Wednesday, September 16, nine months into the 114th Congress, the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on reforming the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), the federal law that regulates government access to private communications records stored by third parties. Right now, the statute allows the government to obtain private messages that are…
Amendments to CISA “Cybersecurity” Bill Fail in All Regards
Favorite Although grassroots activism has dealt it a blow, the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) keeps shambling along like the zombie it is. In July, Senator McConnell vowed to hold a final vote on the bill before Congress left for its six-week long summer vacation. In response, EFF and over 20 other…