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California Enacts Book Purchase Privacy Law

04 Oct

California has enacted the Reader Privacy Act (S.B. 602) which requires search warrant to access customer data on regular and e-books purchased online or from bricks-and-mortar store. All the law and privacy groups are cheering. Here’s the ALCU press release,…

 

Come Back With a Warrant!

09 Jun

Quoting from EFF’s Kevin Bankston’s legislative analysis: [In mid-May,] Senator Patrick Leahy introduced much-needed legislation to update the Electronic Communication Privacy Act of 1986, a critically important but woefully outdated federal privacy law in desperate need of a 21st century…