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EFF Pens Open Letter to Calif. Gov. Brown Asking him To Sign CalECPA Into Law

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s (D) decision to not yet sign the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act is evidence that “California is no longer a leader, not when it comes to how our privacy laws are applied in an era of…

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constant technological growth,” wrote Electronic Frontier Foundation Investigative Researcher Dave Maass in an open letter to Brown Wednesday. Maass said he has been “digging into historical documents for any hint about what action” Brown may take on CalECPA. Though Maass says he was “impressed” by Brown’s “early work on computer literacy in the education system,” he said Brown’s signature is needed on the bill by Oct. 11 to provide privacy for individuals in California, as well as protections for “the companies we entrust our data to and the public safety officers who have to navigate the gray areas to protect us.”