In testimony before a House subcommittee on Tuesday, Elana Tyrangiel, acting assistant attorney general at the DoJ's Office of Legal Policy, affirmed the Obama administration's support for an overhaul of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to provide
stronger privacy protections for Webmail, documents stored online and other cloud services.
Not exact matches
In addition to getting rid of the potential
for so - called fast and slow lanes on the internet, as allowed by a federal court last year, the proposal would provide consumers with
stronger privacy protections.
Next month, Europe will implement its revised General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR), imposing new data breach reporting rules and
stronger consumer
privacy protections, as well as potentially huge penalties
for corporate violators.
American innovation spurred by the Internet will only abide if we enforce a free and open Internet and ensure
strong protections for privacy for persons using the Internet.
The United States has a long and proud history of legal
protection for reading
privacy, and the California Constitution has especially
strong privacy and free speech
protections.
In a decision released earlier this month a
strong panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal took a look at one aspect of the issue of what constitutes a «record,» in this case
for the purposes of applying the Municipal Freedom of Information and
Protection of
Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. M. 56.
Proper
protections for privacy in this area reside in the strict limitation of invasive powers to what is demonstrably necessary to ensure public safety and in
strong measures
for accountability, commensurate with the powers vested.
A
stronger default of
privacy protection for location information, as seen in Europe, may therefore be required.
Big data practices, if unconstrained by
strong legal
protections for privacy, have already been shown to have the potential to interfere with the democratic process.
Having
privacy provisions
for foreigners» data included in FISA would offer «much
stronger protection» and be a «much more sustainable solution», she continued, adding: «Yesterday I spoke to several Congressmen and Congresswomen... We are lobbying
for improvements in this Act but we have to wait until the end of the year.»
Consumers need
stronger protections for the digital age such as comprehensive data security and
privacy laws, transparency and accountability
for data brokers, and rights to and control over their data.»
The EU's General Data
Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws, which will go into effect on May 25, allow
for increased
privacy for users of online services and prescribes
strong measures and harsh penalties to prevent the misuse of their data.