Take Action: Demand we Modernize our Privacy Law

Existing privacy laws require the police to get a warrant before searching your photos, files, letters and other physical documents. Now that technology has advanced, state laws need to be updated to require the same warrant protections when the police want to track your phone or read your emails, text messages or other digital documents. The New York State Electronic Communications Privacy Act (or “NY-ECPA”) will require the police to get a warrant from a judge before they can snoop through your digital life and will protect New Yorkers from unjustified government access to their mobile devices, email, text messages, digital documents, social media, metadata and location information.



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NY ECPA (A1895A/S6044) is supported by National and Local leading technology companies and organizations:

Access Now

American Library Association

Brennan Center for Justice

Bronx Defenders

The Center for Democracy and Technology

Communities United for Police Reform**

CompTIA

ConnectSafely.org

The Constitution Project

Council on American-Islamic Relations New York Chapter (CAIR-NY)

Defending Rights & Dissent

Dropbox

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Engine

Facebook, Inc.

Foursquare

Google

Internet Association*

The Legal Aid Society

Media Alliance

Microsoft

The Muslim Solidarity Committee

National Center for Lesbian Rights

New York Civil Liberties Union

New York Tech Alliance

Project Salam

Pride Center of the Capital Region

reddit

Restore the Fourth NY

Tech NYC

Tech Freedom

Tech Net

The Tenth Amendment Center

Westchester Coalition Against Islamophobia

Yelp

*Internet Association's Memo of Support includes independent support of the following companies: Dropbox, Facebook Inc., Google, Reddit and Snapchat.

** Communities United for Police Reform includes over 50 organizations listed here.

Updated: June 5, 2017

Want to help pass NY-ECPA? Contact us at ecpa@nyclu.org