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Tuesday, 30th March 2010

Launching Tomorrow: Google, Microsoft, Others Will Team Up to Influence Privacy Law

UPDATE: Comments from Google (via Google Blog)

UPDATE: ALA Has Joined the Group

UPDATE: The Digital Due Process Web Site is Now Live
Hat Tip: G.S.

From the VentureBeat Article:

The world’s biggest tech heavyweights are set to team up with each other to influence the future of Internet privacy law. Google, Microsoft and a number of other civil liberties groups, think tanks and tech companies will unveil a set of principles they want to advocate for updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act tomorrow.

That’s a law created in 1986 that sets out the kinds of privacy rights people can expect to have when they use phones and computers. It would also cover government access to data that citizens entrust to companies like Google or Facebook.

Obviously, communication has evolved almost to an almost unrecognizable state from 24 years ago, so there’s not a lot of clarity surrounding whether — say — a Twitter DM or a privately shared piece of content on Facebook might constitute protected communications that government investigators need search warrants to access. How and when should companies like Microsoft and Google hand over data like web searches, profiles, shared content and location history based on IP addresses?

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