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January 29, 2013

Congress Sets Sights On Fixing Privacy Rights

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by Adam Popescu, ReadWrite

The Senate will be taking on much-needed digital rights legislation in the new 113th Congress, including requiring law enforcement to have warrants before poking around online communications. In a speech at Georgetown University Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt). stressed the need for defending civil liberties, protecting privacy, improving transparency and making a push to require a warrant before law enforcement has carte blanche to read people’s emails, social media messages and other modes of online communication.

http://readwrite.com/2013/01/18/new-congress-privacy-agenda-unvelied

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