Extract from Brad Smith’s article “A call for principle-based international agreements to govern law enforcement access to data”
Governments around the world have started to modernize the processes by which law enforcement accesses digital evidence across borders. In the United States, passage of the CLOUD Act created the foundation for a new generation of international agreements that allows governments to engage with each other to create lasting rules to protect privacy and facilitate legitimate law enforcement access to evidence. In Europe last week, the European Commission presented its proposed e-Evidence legislation to the European Parliament. Many other governments are similarly seeking to update their laws to protect privacy, promote digital security and address the challenge of an increasingly borderless world.
