Obama faces major online privacy test

[Sabre]

CNet Article

When Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency in 2008, he promised that as president, he would "strengthen privacy protections for the digital age."
That pledge will be put to the test as the Obama administration considers whether to support a new privacy proposal released by a coalition including Google, eBay, Microsoft, AT&T, the ACLU, and Americans for Tax Reform. CNET was the first to report on the proposal in an article published Monday.
The group, the Digital Due Process coalition, is calling for a federal law requiring police to obtain search warrants before tracking Americans' cell phone locations or accessing their e-mail and documents stored in the cloud--positions that place its members squarely at odds with the Obama Justice Department.
In case after case during the past decade, the Justice Department has said that successful criminal investigations depend on being able to obtain that information without search warrants. Prosecutors told a federal appeals court in Philadelphia last month, for instance, that Americans enjoy no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in their, or at least their mobile phones', whereabouts.

I REALLY hope he does the right thing...

[Mr Kleen]

fingers crossed...