The rascals over at Anonymous are still pretty upset over the recent revelations about the NSA spying on seemingly everyone so they’re acting out in the only way they know how: hacking. Specifically, releasing the supposed email accounts—and passwords—of seemingly everybody on Capitol Hill.
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Google’s legal director of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, is set to testify before the US House of Representatives this morning about the need for new email privacy legislation. In his written testimony, Salgado notes that the 1986 ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) doesn’t reflect the internet circa 2013, noting how cloud computing has increased the amount of user information shared and stored online.
Salgado’s prepared statement calls for updates to ECPA that allow for greater privacy measures, while also ensuring that government agencies can obtain access to documents when necessary. He points to the ECPA’s policy on government requests to view users’ email — only a subpoena is required for email 180 days or older, but viewing newer communication requires a search warrant — as an example of the law’s “inconsistent, confusing and uncertain standards.” Google wants to alter the ECPA to require search warrants to access any user data stored online, regardless of their age. Salgado’s testimony also touches on Mountain View’s own efforts to improve transparency when it comes to user privacy, including publishing reports about government requests. Read the statement in full via the source link below.
Source: Google Public Policy blog
Ain’t nobody in the US House of Representatives gonna be listening to no Spotify at work. Why? The House’s IT overlords don’t see fit. Not because Spotify is distracting and there’s real work that needs to be done or anything, no. It’s because Spotify has P2P guts and P2P is baaaaaaad, apparently. Yeah, even the RIAA thinks that line of reasoning is stupid. More »
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