Free Webcast June 9 on Updating the Rules for Digital Privacy

[Valerie Vogel <vvogel () EDUCAUSE EDU>]

Next week's EDUCAUSE Live! webcast may be of interest to this group. 

Thank you--Valerie
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"Government Access to Electronic Communications - Updating the Rules"

http://www.educause.edu/live1015 

1-2pm U.S. Eastern Time, Wednesday, June 9. No charge, but registration
required. Archived for future (re)viewing.

Speaker:

Jim Dempsey
Vice President for Public Policy
Center for Democracy & Technology

Summary:

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) was a forward-looking
statute when enacted in 1986. It specified standards for law enforcement
access to e-mail and other electronic communications and transactional
data, affording important privacy protections to subscribers of emerging
wireless and Internet technologies. As providers of electronic
communications services, educational institutions are covered by ECPA.

Dramatic advances in technology and business models since 1986 have far
outpaced the law. As a result, ECPA is a patchwork of confusing
standards that have been interpreted inconsistently by the courts,
creating uncertainty for service providers, their customers, and law
enforcement agencies. Two examples: the statute may not adequately
protect the vast amounts of personal information stored "in the cloud"
or mobile location data that reveals our minute-by-minute movements.

After more than two years of dialogue, privacy advocates, think tanks
from across the ideological spectrum, legal scholars, and major Internet
and communication service providers have developed a core set of
principles to update ECPA to apply to new services and technologies. Key
recommendations are to extend the traditional requirement of a judicial
warrant to private content stored in the cloud and to mobile tracking
data. The U.S. Department of Justice is likely to have its own set of
counterproposals. This session will explore current standards for
government surveillance, the technological changes that are outpacing
the law, and recommendations for updating ECPA.

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Valerie M. Vogel
Program Associate, EDUCAUSE
office: (202) 331-5374
e-mail: vvogel () educause edu 

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