Golden Frog visits Washington DC to Talk Online Privacy

Golden Frog visits Washington DC to Talk Online Privacy -

We are in Washington DC this week to talk about privacy issues in line with congressional leaders and our friend the I2C industry !

the main issues that we will discuss this trip include:

Update ECPA

ECPA defines the rules when the police and the government can read email and other digital content. It has remained unchanged since 1986, despite all the technological changes that have taken place, and we believe ECPA needs to be updated in order to protect the rights of online privacy of Americans.

Protection Encryption

We firmly believe in encryption, and urge Congress to pass legislation that protects the rights of Internet users to encrypt their digital information. This right should be extended to data stored in the devices, the Internet and in the cloud.

Banning Backdoor Encryption

We are strongly opposed to encryption backdoor, and not believe in access to consumer information through backdoors mandated by the government. These backdoors introduce vulnerabilities in communications for consumers.

Addressing Communications Content Collection

We US believe intelligence agencies operated without effective supervision for too long and inexplicable massive surveillance programs, nontransparent should not continue to go unchecked more.

Our meetings

While in DC this week, we met the following people and groups. We shared our above discussion points, and had some great discussions on the way. Our meetings:

• InCompass - Meeting with CEO Chip Pickering and others
• Congressman Lamar Smith - President of Science & Tech / former chairman of the Judiciary Committee
• Congressman Louie Gohmert - Meeting with his legislative director Austin Smithson
• Senator Rand Paul - Meeting with his assistant Brandon Brooker
• Member of Congress Pete Olson and his chief -Major Tyler Nelson
• Chris Calabrese, vice president of policy at CDT
• Congressman John Ratcliffe - Texas member of the judicial Committee
• i2Coalition, including a meeting innovation House CTA where Congressman Will Hurd addressed the group
• Congressman Farenthold Black - Texas member of the judicial Committee

More to come

is a picture of Golden Frog Co-CEO Ron Yokubaitis with Bijan CCIA, Karen Incompas, Christian and David I2C I2C.

Please check back later this week for a full summary of our visit, and details on what issues we discussed all in Washington DC.

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