April 5th, 2010 
Brad McGraw 
If you’ve never heard of Digital Due Process its not a surprise, however what is a surprise is who is behind it. I am sure you’ve heard of Google, Microsoft, Intel, eBay, AT&T, ACLU, Americans for Tax Reform, and many others. This crosses political boundaries as well, its not a red vs blue, liberal vs conservative, republican vs democrat, communism vs socialism, or fork vs spoon.
Now what is this all about? Online privacy. Basically these companies want the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to be rewritten. The ECPA was written in 1986 and hasn’t changed since, while technology has changed dramatically. Here is a video to explain the idea behind this.
Its pretty basic and easy to understand. Its basically taking our 4th Amendment Rights and making sure they apply to our online world and our private information stored there. With cloud computing, where our information is stored online rather than on our computer’s hard drives, getting a larger and larger presence in today’s technology, this is something that does need to change.
Now this would only stop the government from peeking at your information online, this will not stop your employer from actively searching out your internet activity.
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