Why Congress's Digital Archive For Text Messages Is Such A Bad Idea If passed, the proposal would be the first major update to the 27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Privacy_Act>(ECPA), and the latest in a string of blatant challenges<http://readwrite.com/2012/12/26/thanks-congress-but-we-need-privacy-protection-not-banal-social-sharing>to the Fourth Amendment, which (up until recently... we're looking at you, FISA<http://readwrite.com/2012/12/28/fisa-fail-senate-to-keep-spying-on-citizens>) served to protect citizens' rights and information, *unless* law enforcement was granted a court-issued warrant. But if this SMS-retention requirement makes it into law, the nearly 2.3 trillion text messages America's 321.7 million wireless subscribers<http://www.ctia.org/advocacy/research/index.cfm/aid/10323> send in a year would all become the property of the Federal government, stored in a repository for 2 years. http://bit.ly/RI2f9d Source: http://readwrite.com/2013/01/03/why-congresss-digital-archive-for-text-messages-is-such-a-bad-idea See if people are clicking on this link: http://bit.ly/RI2f9d+ Try the bitly.com sidebar to see who is talking about a page on the web: http://bitly.com/pages/sidebar -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/RAINbyte/ http://paper.li/RAINbyte/rainbyte http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/archives/ http://pinterest.com/pakurilecz/records-management/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/peterakurilecz Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]
