Federal agencies objected on Wednesday to increasing privacy protections for Americans under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
In a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, representatives of the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission all expressed concerns about a proposed update to the 1986 act governing the procedures that authorities must follow to obtain Americans’ communications, including digital communication.
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