Issues: Access to Data
We fight to ensure that Fourth and Ninth amendments translate to the digital world.
This is a crucial time for courts and legislators to establish principles pertaining to government access to data. Courts are now laying the foundation for the Fourth Amendment (search and seizure) to apply to a digital environment with recent decisions such as the Supreme Court’s ruling to impose limits on how cell phone data can be accessed in law enforcement investigations. Meanwhile, current laws such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) allow for warrantless access to data.
Government information collection is important for matters such as national security and criminal investigations; but for consumers and society it’s important that government access to data follows due process requirements, has a real positive impact on law enforcement activities, and does not undermine consumer confidence in the privacy of data.
Recent Updates On Access to Data
Access To Data, Member Spotlight, The Internet Infrastructure Industry
Protecting The Internet Through Its Core Innovators
Today I step into one of the best jobs on the planet, with some of the highest stakes.
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
Online Terrorist Activity Act
i2Coalition Joins Opposition to Online Monitoring Bill – Online Terrorist Activity Act
Senators Feinstein and Burr recently introduced legislation that would require companies to report to the government instances of terrorist activity taking place on their networks.
Access To Data, Cross Border Data Flows, Digital Trade, EU Policy, EU Policy Positions, Privacy, US Policy
Department of Commerce, DOC, EU, European Commission, JRA, Judicial Redress Act, National Security Agency, NSA, Safe Harbor, Safe Harbor Framework, US
It’s Time to Come Together on Digital Trade
Digital trade between the U.S. and the EU is really big business. 70 percent of trade in services between the U.S. and EU is delivered digitally.
Access To Data, Encryption, EU Policy, Privacy, US Policy
Draft Investigatory Powers Bill, ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, House of Commons, House of Commons Select Committee, National Security Agency, NSA, Snooper's Charter, UK
Comments Presented To UK Parliament on Snooper’s Charter
i2Coalition recently responded to the UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Committee request for evidence on the “Snooper’s Charter” or Draft Investigatory Powers Bill.
Access To Data, Cybersecurity, Internet Governance, Privacy, US Policy
ICANN
No Falling Back
The Coalition has been very effective in its inaugural years, and there are myriad existing and new issues for us to tackle over the next three.
Access To Data, Privacy, US Policy
Judicial Redress Act, National Security Agency, NSA
We Applaud The House Passage of Judicial Redress Act
Act Will Help Restore Global Confidence in the U.S. Internet Infrastructure Sector.