By Julian Sanchez – We have unwittingly constructed a legal and technological architecture that brings point-and-click simplicity to the politics of personal destruction. The Petraeus affair has, for a moment, exposed that invisible scaffolding ‑ and provided a rare opportunity to revisit outdated laws and reconsider the expanded surveillance powers doled out over the past panicked decade.
Congress should seize the opportunity to re-examine and revise these myriad surveillance techniques and update the oversight process. At a bare minimum, lawmakers should drag the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act into the 21st century ‑ requiring a warrant for all law-enforcement access to communications contents and tightening the rules for access to sensitive information, such as cellphone location data. more> http://tinyurl.com/a2sxgba
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