Online privacy: Difference Engine: Nobbling the internet | The Economist - 1 views
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The congressional measure, approved overwhelmingly by the Senate Judiciary Committee on November 29th, would require criminal investigators to obtain a search warrant from a judge before being able to coerce internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over a person’s e-mail.
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Cheap storage, wholesale access to the internet, powerful mobile phones and ubiquitous social networking have dramatically increased the amount of private data kept online.
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As a consequence, the international telecoms treaty that emerged focused on how telephone traffic flows across borders, the rules governing the quality of service and the means operators could adopt to bill one another for facilitating international calls.
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The international regulation for Internet can change whole industry even whole world. Due to the prevalence of internet, the regulation of telecommunication can play an important role for the field. However, like normal privacy, internet privacy can be treated as the same way. Nowadays, only after getting a warrant from a judge can a police coerce internet service providers (ISPs) to hand over a person's email.