{"id":489833,"date":"2010-03-30T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=109451"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T17:45:11","slug":"tech-firms-unite-to-demand-location-and-cloud-services-privacy-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/489833","title":{"rendered":"Tech Firms Unite to Demand Location and Cloud Services Privacy Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google, Microsoft, AT&T, Salesforce.com, AOL, Intel, Loopt and numerous advocacy groups are asking the U.S. Congress to update its electronic privacy legislation in order to address new forms of surveillance and data collecting. The so-called Digital Due Process<\/a> coalition members say they want to defend themselves and their users from forced sharing of their email, hosted documents and mobile location tracking.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The law in question is the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which dates back to 1986, and whose designers didn’t anticipate activities such as email, mobile location tracking, cloud computing and social networking. Citing a “murky legal landscape” about how ECPA is applied, Digital Due Process is requesting four changes:<\/p>\n