E-RIGHTS S. 854

Increases privacy protections for physical location information generated by cell phones

Tightens standard for pen register or trap and trace orders

Establishes privacy standards for personably identifiable information submitted for domain name registration

Places stricter limits on roving wiretaps

Affirms right to domestic use and sale of strong encryption products

Prohibits government-mandated key recovery or key escrow

Establishes standards for law enforcement access to decryption assistance and plaintext data

Prohibits disclosure of decryption assistance to foreign governments without court order

Provides privacy protections for library and book sale records

Provides privacy protections for home satellite TV viewing of data

Text of S. 854

Section by Section Analysis of S. 854

CDT's chart on Current Legal Standards for Law Enforcement Access

April 21, 1999 E-RIGHTS introduced by Senator Leahy and referred to the Judiciary Committee.

Senator Leahy's floor statement upon bill's introduction

Free Speech | Data Privacy | Government Surveillance | Cryptography | Domain Names | International | Bandwidth | Security | Internet Standards, Technology and Policy Project | Terrorism | Authentication | Right to Know | Spam

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