The following is a guest post by Cynthia Jordan, Senior Writer-Editor at the Law Library of Congress.
Orin S. Kerr, Law Library Scholar-in-Residence for the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation Program on Demography, Technology, and Criminal Justice at the Library of Congress, has had a couple of busy weeks. On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, he testified before the United States House of Representatives Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations. The topic of his testimony was “Investigating and Prosecuting 21st Century Cyber Threats” and concerned the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), codified at 18 U.S.C. § 1030. On Tuesday, March 19, 2013, he appeared before the Subcommittee again to testify on the reform of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) which regulates government access to Internet communications and records.