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Faulty Court Ruling That Threatens to Gut Groundbreaking Privacy Statute CalECPA Must Be Reversed EFF and the ACLU of Northern California urged a California appeals court last week to reverse a judge’s wrongheaded and dangerous ruling that threatens the critical privacy protections afforded by the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), the most robust digital privacy measure in the country. The law , which garnered bipartisan support, requires police to obtain a warrant from a neutral judge to search stored communications such as email, text messages, location data, or documents, whether they are on an electronic device or in the cloud. Warrants must describe in detail the information to be seized, specifying time periods for the search, target individuals or accounts, and the type of information sought. Anything collected that’s not relevant to what’s described in the warrant can’t be reviewed, used, or disclosed, and must be sealed. These requirements are...