{"id":1444,"date":"2013-06-05T16:16:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:16:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2013-06-05T16:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-05T16:16:45","slug":"texas-tries-to-bring-constitutional-right-to-privacy-to-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/?p=1444","title":{"rendered":"Texas Tries to Bring Constitutional Right to Privacy to Digital Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Cell Phone and Email Data Protections Considered<\/h2>\n<p><em>by John Michaelson\/TNS<\/em><\/p>\n<p>AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Texas Senate is expected to vote today on a bill that supporters say will help preserve privacy in the digital age.<\/p>\n<p>One part of the legislation,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openstates.org\/tx\/bills\/83\/SB1052\/\" target=\"parent\">Senate Bill 1052<\/a>, would require law enforcement to secure a probable-cause warrant before using cell-phone tracking technology to follow suspects or get location information.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1445\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1445\" class=\" wp-image-1445 \" alt=\"A bill that supporters say would bring Texas into the 21st century when it comes to privacy protections is expected to be voted on Wednesday in the state Senate. Photo: Jeramey Jannene\/TNS.\" src=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-32593-1-1.jpg\" width=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-32593-1-1.jpg 500w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-32593-1-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-32593-1-1-405x304.jpg 405w, https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/gr-32593-1-1-120x90.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1445\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A bill that supporters say would bring Texas into the 21st century when it comes to privacy protections is expected to be voted on Wednesday in the state Senate. Photo: Jeramey Jannene\/TNS.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Right now, there&#8217;s a loophole in the way that warrants work in Texas,&#8221; said Matt Simpson, policy strategist for the ACLU of Texas, &#8220;Detailed information about where, say for example, I&#8217;ve been based on what cell phone towers my phone uses while I move around could be gotten with a secret subpoena by law enforcement, directly from a cell phone company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill also would require a probable-cause warrant for law enforcement to access the content of email messages from cell phones or Internet service providers.<\/p>\n<p>These changes are needed, Simpson said, so that Texas&#8217; policy on personal privacy keeps pace in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A lot of this is just an update to the law that follows technology,&#8221; he said. &#8220;No one ever really imagined, for example, a lot of our information would be in a &#8216;cloud&#8217; somewhere, stored. It&#8217;s almost conceptually a new way of thinking about information &#8211; and so, not so much making new law, but just updating the Fourth Amendment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill does include emergency provisions so that data requests by law enforcement can be expedited in certain cases, including life-threatening circumstances.<\/p>\n<p>More information, including the bill&#8217;s text, is online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openstates.org\/tx\/bills\/83\/SB1052\/\" target=\"parent\">openstates.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cell Phone and Email Data Protections Considered by John Michaelson\/TNS AUSTIN, Texas &#8211; The Texas Senate is expected to vote today on a bill that supporters say will help preserve privacy in the digital age. One part of the legislation,\u00a0Senate Bill 1052, would require law enforcement to secure a probable-cause warrant before using cell-phone tracking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-web-exclusive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1446,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions\/1446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/losfresnosnews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}