On the podcast this week, Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the Cato Institue who focuses on issues related to technology, privacy, and civil liberties, discusses electronic communications. Sanchez talks about changes in surveillance of electronic communications since 9/11, highlighting the large number of cases in which the FBI has gathered phone, internet, and banking information without judicial oversight. He then discusses the legal framework around electronic communications, which he says was built for a very different set of assumptions than we have today. Sanchez also gives a few recommendations for how to disentangle the convoluted legal standards related to electronic communications.
Related Links
- “Record Number of Americans Targeted by National Security Letters,” by Sanchez
- “The Strange Case Against ECPA Reform,” by Sanchez
- “Apple, The iPhone And A Locational Privacy Techno-Panic,” by Adam Thierer
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