[Libs-Or] INFORMATION: ALA announces support of Digital Due Process

[Diedre Conkling]

ALA announces support of Digital Due
Process<http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4678>
March 30, 2010 ( No
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The American Library Association (ALA) today joined the Digital Due Process
Coalition (DDP), seeking to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
(ECPA).   DDP includes a diverse group of privacy advocates, major companies
and think tanks, proposing principles to guide the updating of ECPA, the key
federal law that defines the rules for government access to e-mail and
private files stored in the Internet “cloud.”
The DDP principles are fully consistent with ALA’s policies in support of
privacy rights, including people’s activities in the new technological
environments available to us now.   Governmental entities should not be able
to access personal electronic records, emails and other data without
appropriate search warrants, particularized suspicion and probable cause.

ALA has advocated for these principles as part of the library community’s
commitment to civil liberties including the ‘right to read’ and the privacy
rights of readers and library users.    If the ECPA is updated following
these key principles, law enforcement can have the tools to conduct its work
and investigations while the public can trust that basic privacy rights will
be protected.

http://www.wo.ala.org/districtdispatch/?p=4678


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Diedre Conkling
Lincoln County Library District
P.O. Box 2027
Newport, OR  97365
Work phone & fax:  541-265-3066
Work email:  diedre at beachbooks.org
Home email:  diedre08 at gmail.com
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