Access for me, not for thee
August 2, 2019 6:48 AM Subscribe
UC Berkeley law professor Rebecca Wexler writes in the LA Times about "a cluster of new and proposed state and federal laws" that strengthen consumer privacy protections. Unfortunately, the new wave of legislation offers broad exceptions for law enforcement requesting access to data from third-party companies in the course of an investigation--while similar access is denied to defendants trying to prove their innocence. Writes Wexler: "Just as the privacy interests of poor, minority and heavily policed communities are often ignored in the lawmaking process, so too are the interests of criminal defendants, many from those same communities." Further detail provided in a recent paper.
praemunire: Perhaps you can describe your arguments when it's not five in the morning. Perhaps non-lawyers (like myself) wouldn't be able to understand the arguments, but there are plenty of lawyers on this site.
Also, if you could also describe a framework that would address the concerns that Professor Wexler puts forth in her op-ed, that'd be awesome.
posted by el io at 5:25 PM on August 4, 2019
Also, if you could also describe a framework that would address the concerns that Professor Wexler puts forth in her op-ed, that'd be awesome.
posted by el io at 5:25 PM on August 4, 2019
While I agree that protections would need to be in place to prevent abuses by third parties, I would also argue that protections need to be in place to prevent abuses by the government (and prosecutors). As it stands prosecutors all-to-often find evidence that should be turned over to defense teams that isn't.
posted by el io at 1:56 AM on August 16, 2019
posted by el io at 1:56 AM on August 16, 2019
« Older I would attend more sport if it was actaully like... | Coming clean about Medieval bathing practices Newer »
This thread has been archived and is closed to new comments
posted by praemunire at 8:40 AM on August 2, 2019 [1 favorite]