{"id":541,"date":"2013-04-26T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=541"},"modified":"2013-04-26T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T15:31:22","slug":"ecpa-reform-gets-a-two-fer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gutcheckamerica.com\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"ECPA Reform Gets a Two-Fer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"dropcap-first\">Big news powering the current ECPA reform push being headed by my former <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdt.org\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">CDT<\/span><\/a> <\/span>colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>First out of the gate, the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_the_Judiciary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Senate Judiciary Committee<\/a>&#8216;s historic move in <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdt.org\/blogs\/greg-nojeim\/2504ecpa-reform-takes-giant-leap-forward\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">passing<\/span><\/a> <\/span>(on a bipartisan voice vote) the <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a title=\"S. 602\" href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/query\/z?c113:S.607:\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Leahy-Lee ECPA reform bill<\/span><\/a><\/span>, which includes a &#8220;warrant for content&#8221; provision.<\/p>\n<p>The House Crime Subcommittee held a hearing a<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d113:h.r.01312:\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> version<\/span><\/a><\/span> of ECPA reform legislation dealing with Geolocation Privacy and Surveillance.\u00a0 CDT&#8217;s Kevin Bankson and Dr. Joe Hall nearly wore their thumbs out live tweeting the hearing (and doing a smashing job at it).<\/p>\n<p>Bankston wrote a <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdt.org\/blogs\/kevin-bankston\/2504today%E2%80%99s-other-ecpa-reform-news-location-privacy-hearing-house\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">great running account of the hearing<\/span><\/a><\/span> in CDT&#8217;s PolicyBeta blog. Bankston summarizes hearing events like this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was a notable albeit somewhat rough consensus between both the Representatives and the witnesses that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Location data is critically important to modern law enforcement investigations;<\/li>\n<li>The current legal standards for location tracking are unclear\u2014a \u201cpatchwork\u201d, as Judiciary Committee Chairman Goodlatte described it;<\/li>\n<li>Legislation is necessary to clarify those standards;<\/li>\n<li>Finding the right balance between privacy and the needs of law enforcement on this complex technological issue may be difficult;<\/li>\n<li>but When it comes to tracking a phone using its <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Global Positioning System\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_Positioning_System\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Global Positioning System (GPS)<\/a> chip, a warrant based on probable cause should be required\u2014which is not clearly codified in the law right now, but which is DOJ\u2019s current policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, not all was sweetness.\u00a0 Bankston also notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Where consensus broke down was on the question of how the law should treat non-GPS, network-based phone tracking; that is, tracking based on what cell towers you are closest to. The two witnesses with law enforcement backgrounds were skeptical that warrants should be required for cell tower data, which they contended was very general and imprecise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another of my old <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Web 1.0\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Web_1.0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Web 1.0<\/a> warrior friends, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Matt Blaze\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Matt_Blaze\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Matt Blaze<\/a>, provided some <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/hearings\/113th\/04252013\/Blaze%2004252013.pdf\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">insightful testimony<\/span><\/a><\/span>, too, noting that any legislation that isn&#8217;t &#8220;technology neutral is doomed to become increasingly meaningless.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For some Friday brain candy, be sure to check out the great <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_pGCWZGdq08\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">&#8220;Jones vs Drones&#8221; video<\/span><\/a><\/span> [shot and edited by yours truly] for a compelling discussion of how opinions in the &#8220;US v Jones&#8221; US Supreme Court case is relevant to <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fourth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Fourth Amendment<\/a> searches.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\" style=\"font-size: 1em;\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\" style=\"margin: 0; padding: 0; overflow: hidden;\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\" style=\"padding: 0; background: none; list-style: none; display: block; float: left; vertical-align: top; text-align: left; width: 84px; font-size: 11px; margin: 2px 10px 10px 2px;\"><a style=\"box-shadow: 0px 0px 4px #999; padding: 2px; display: block; border-radius: 2px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2013\/042513-could-privacy-protection-bills-hinder-269148.html?source=nww_rss\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding: 0; 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