Government,
Administrative/Regulatory
May 26, 2017
CalECPA reassures in the Trump age
Against this backdrop, it is reassuring that we, as Californians, benefit from the protections of the recently enacted California Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Susan Freiwald
Associate Dean
University of San Francisco School of Law
Susanteaches, publishes and presents about new communications technologies and the law. She served as an issue expert for CalECPA's authors and as a member of the bill's policy and language teams.
Besides raising questions about the viability of his administration, several recent stories coming out about the Trump administration have exacerbated anxiety about communications privacy in the digital age. For example, a recent tweet insinuated that the president had secretly recorded his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey, for possible use to pressure the director. Does that mean that the president surreptitiously records his conversations with all the people who think t...
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