SIIA Applauds Senate for Moving ECPA Forward; Calls for Action to Keep Bill Moving Forward
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SIIA Applauds Senate for Moving ECPA Forward; Calls for Action to Keep Bill Moving Forward
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 25, 2013) – Following the Senate Judiciary Committee passage of S. 607, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Amendments of 2013, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) urged members of Congress to move swiftly to approve the important legislation. SIIA president Ken Wasch issued the following statement:
“ECPA is outdated and badly in need of reform, and today’s action gets us one important step closer to that goal. The technological advances in communications and computing since the bill’s original passage in 1986 have been nothing short of revolutionary. As such, the legal framework provided by this statue leaves both providers and users of remote computing with a complex, baffling, and outdated set of rules.
“The reforms approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee will end the current law’s double-standard that provides for a lower level of privacy for communications stored remotely, or ‘in the cloud.’ The legislation will even the playing field for law enforcement access to electronic content, setting a warrant as the consistent standard, regardless of how or where the content is stored. We urge the full Senate to now move this bill forward, so that Americans can be assured that information stored in the cloud gets the same protection as the information stored in their homes.”
About SIIA
SIIA is the leading association representing the software and digital content industries. SIIA represents approximately 700 member companies worldwide that develop software and digital information content. Information technology (IT) and software security are critical issues to SIIA’s members, many of whom strive to develop safe, secure and state-of the-art products that effectively serve their commercial and government customers alike, while protecting their intellectual property. For more information, visit www.siia.net.