External Link: Ask Congress to Update Electronic Privacy Law

The more we do online, the more digital footprints we leave behind. Protections for our online activities—searches, purchases, mobile phone usage—have not been updated since 1986. That’s before the World Wide Web and before most people even had a cell phone.

Today, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which should safeguard electronic communications records (like your email or chat logs) and the information you share with companies (like Google documents or social networking posts), is in serious need of an update. The government should have to go to a judge and get a warrant that says it has probable cause to believe you’ve committed a crime before it can read your email, browse through your social networking account, or track your location.

Please join us in asking Congress to modernize our electronic privacy law.