Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said he hopes to strike a balance between defending against ncyberattacks and protecting privacy online. Speaking at the Newseum, Judiciary Committee nChairman Leahy said he will direct his committee to modernize the Electronic Communications nPrivacy Act (ECPA) and the Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act n(CALEA). “I want our security agencies to have the tools needed to keep us safe from ncyberthreats, but I also want our federal privacy laws to keep pace with advancing ntechnology,” he said. “This is not an easy balance, but I think it can be done." On nmodernizing CALEA, Leahy said lawmakers must weigh Americans’ privacy rights against law nenforcement needs “to gather valuable, court-ordered surveillance information to keep the nnation safe."
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