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MN Legislature Introduces Amendment to Protect Electronic Communication

posted by janrinok on Wednesday February 18 2015, @09:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the one-state-at-a-time dept.

Kromagv0 writes:

The Minnesota legislature has introduced an amendment to the MN Constitution to enshrine the protections afforded by the 4th amendment to electronic communication and data as well. It appears that this amendment has broad diverse support in the state house but leadership in the state senate is only lukewarm on it. In the senate Ron Latz (DFL) Chairman of the Judiciary Committee had blocked the amendment stating that he feels it is redundant. Additionally Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk (DFL) opposes the amendment because it is an amendment to the MN constitution. If passed, Minnesota would become only the second state to enact such a change — Missouri enacted its amendment last year with 75% of the popular vote.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 19 2015, @01:22AM (#146796)

    You are not drawing the right distinction. The 3rd party doctrine applies regardless of electronic or analog data. Similarly simply using the network does not expose you to the 3rd party doctrine, no more than the feds are allowed to tap your phone calls. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA [wikipedia.org]) and the Stored Communications ACT (SCA [wikipedia.org]) did establish some protections, however they have been reduced by the PATRIOT and CALEA acts.