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Booksellers have played an important role in defending the privacy of reader records. But there are other serious threats to our privacy that can have a chilling effect on our First Amendment rights. The government's power to read your email, access your private photos stored online and track your daily movements is defined in a 1986 law, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The privacy protections of ECPA have not been updated since 1986. They say that the government can access your communications and surveil you without getting a warrant from a judge. Isn't it time for privacy to catch up with technology? Join the call to get Congress to reform ECPA by signing the petition: Your first and last name will go on the public petition, unless you request anonymity. Your email address will not be published, nor will it be disclosed to others. ABFFE will use it only to alert you to policy developments affecting your privacy rights. Your Zip Code will allow us to tell you how to contact your representatives in Congress.
The government should be required to go to a judge and get a warrant before it can read our email, access private photographs and documents we store online, or track our location using our mobile phones. Please support legislation that would update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) to require warrants for this sensitive information and to require the government to report publicly on the use of its surveillance powers.
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