In the News Bill named after murdered Girl fails House vote. Thank goodness.
Current law already allows telecom providers to share info with police in emergencies if the user has given permission or if law enforcement clears a few existing bureaucratic and judicial hurdles to prove to the company that an emergency is indeed underway, as the R Street Institute has noted. This bill would have taken a bigger dent out of the Fourth Amendment by removing even those minimal barriers—which are designed to protect users’ privacy—and leaving the definition of emergency up to law enforcement, as the ACLU noted earlier this year.
