"“H.R. 699 represents an overdue update to ECPA that would ensure electronic communications content is treated in a commensurate manner to other papers and effects stored in the home, which are protected by the Fourth Amendment,” Richard Salgado, Google's director of law enforcement and information security, said in testimony written for the hearing. “It is long past time for Congress to pass a clean version of H.R. 699.”
Salgado said Congress should reject proposals that would create a civil agency carve-out."
- Date Published:12/01/2015
- Original Publication:Bloomberg BNA