Support search warrant protection of personal email cell phone info
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas If you DO have a
reasonable expectation" that your data is private then todays hearings in the Texas Legislature are for you. The Obama Administration says We the People" dont have a reasonable expectation of privacy" when it comes to data thats not actually stored in our homes like the detailed location data kept by your cell phone company or
years of email you never deleted off Yahoo.
That means police can rifle through all that data without probable cause or a warrant signed by a judge.
The Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition is a coalition that supports search warrant protection for location data and for content of email and cloud hosted documents.
Bills to require police to get a warrant for the detailed location data held by your cell phone company are
up in committee in both chambers Tuesday March 26.
When: the afternoon of Tuesday March 26th- What: Hearings before House Criminal Jurisprudence and Senate Criminal Justice
- Where: 10:30am or upon House adjournment E2.016 (House had been adjourning in the early afternoon)
1:30pm or upon Senate adjournment E1.016 (Senate has been adjourning in early afternoon)
- How: For more information about ways you can participate check out our instructions at www.txepc.org.
HB 1608 and
SB 786 will be heard in both the House and Senate committees. These bills will require police to get a warrant if they want to use the detailed location data held by cell phone companies.
The Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition is a coalition that supports search warrant protection for location data and for content of email and cloud hosted documents.
See our February 22 2013 press release.
- A governmental entity may require a provider of wire or electronic communication service or a provider of remote computing service to disclose communications that are not readily accessible to the public only with a
search warrant issued based on a showing of probable cause regardless of the age of the communications the means or status of their storage or the providers access to or use of the communications in its normal business operations. (View HB 3164 Factsheet)
- A governmental entity may access or may require a covered entity to provide prospectively or retrospectively location information regarding a mobile communications device only with a warrant issued based on a showing of probable cause. (View HB 1608 Factsheet)
The coalition includes EFF-Austin Grits for Breakfast Texans for Accountable Government the Texas Civil Rights Project and ACLU of Texas.
