Prof. Kerr is explaining his law review article “The Next Generation Privacy Act” at the Library of Congress. Kerr, the man who literally wrote the DOJ manual on computer crimes (back in 2001) is asking Congress to protect Americans’ privacy from law enforcement access to their email and other stored communications (think: Dropbox, Google Docs, online calendars, etc) by repealing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 – and enacting a new statute with consistent legal standards that apply across technology, regardless of whether government access is conducted in “real time” or how old the data in question is.

To learn more, check out our work on privacy and ECPA reform.

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