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1 CIS H 52126
TITLE: Fourth
Amendment and the Internet
CIS-NO: 2001-H521-26
SOURCE:
Committee on the Judiciary. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: Apr. 6, 2000
LENGTH:
iii+100 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1020-A; 1020-B
SUDOC: Y4.J89/1:106/135
MC-ENTRY-NO: 2001-8317
GPO-STOCK-NO: 552-070-26226-1.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 135. Hearing before the Subcom on the Constitution to
examine privacy and law enforcement issues regarding
personal information transmitted over the Internet, in light of
fourth amendment protections against warrantless electronic surveillance.
Also assesses legislative efforts to balance fourth amendment
privacy protections with the ability of law enforcement
authorities, under court order or other authority, to monitor electronic
communications.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Internet
privacy protection and law enforcement facilitation issues
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON
CONSTITUTION. HOUSE; RIGHT OF PRIVACY; INTERNET; COMPUTER
AND TELECOMMUNICATION SECURITY; TELECOMMUNICATION REGULATION; COURTS;
CONSTITUTIONAL LAW; ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE
01-H521-26 TESTIMONY NO: 1
Apr. 6, 2000 p. 4-18
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
DIGREGORY, KEVIN V. (Deputy Associate Attorney
General, Department of Justice)
STATEMENT AND DISCUSSION:
Challenges to effective law enforcement for crimes
committed over the Internet.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet privacy protection and law
enforcement facilitation issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
01-H521-26
TESTIMONY NO: 2 Apr. 6, 2000 p. 20-100
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
DEMPSEY, JAMES X.
(Senior Staff Counsel, Center for Democracy and Technology)
NOJEIM, GREGORY T. (Legislative Counsel, ACLU)
ROSEN, JEFFREY (Associate Professor, Law, George
Washington University Law School)
BAKER, FREDERICK J.
(Chairman, Internet Engineering Task Force)
BAKER, STEWART
(attorney)
FISHMAN, CLIFFORD S. (Professor, Law, Columbus
School of Law, Catholic University)
CORN-REVERE, ROBERT
(Adjunct Professor, Communications Law Institute, Columbus School of Law,
Catholic University)
RICHARDS, JEFF B. (Executive
Director, Internet Alliance)
WONG, NICOLE (attorney)
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
Background on
fourth amendment privacy protections against unwarranted
electronic surveillance; applicability of fourth amendment
privacy protections to Internet communications, including
stored electronic mail; analysis of personal privacy issues
associated with electronic surveillance.
Adequacy of the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 to protect
information transmitted over the Internet, with perspectives on
provisions regarding devices to record dialed telephone numbers; recommendations
to balance law enforcement needs with fourth amendment protections for Internet
communications.
Elaboration on privacy
protection and electronic communication issues (related materials, p. 26-29,
49-56).
CONTENT NOTATION:
Internet
privacy protection and law enforcement facilitation issues
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
AMERICAN CIVIL
LIBERTIES UNION; TELEPHONE AND TELEPHONE INDUSTRY; ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
PRIVACY ACT
LOAD-DATE: January 31,
2002 
