The US Senate Judiciary Committee last week took a key step toward fixing outdated privacy laws by endorsing a bill proposed by Chairman Patrick Leahy.
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has applauded Leahy and all members of the Committee for their stated strong, bipartisan support for reasonable privacy protections online. The bill includes reforms to give appropriate privacy protection to e-mail and cloud storage. For more information about the Senate action and the bill, which is an amendment to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), visit 'Senate Panel Backs E-Mail Privacy Bill,' in the Washington Post (Nov. 29, 2012).
The ARL is a nonprofit organisation of 125 research libraries in the US and Canada.
