February 3rd, 2012
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Journalists, the cloud and the Privacy Protection Act

Are journalists protected in a digital age? As more and more people store information in the cloud, Jonathan Peters, media lawyer and the Frank Martin Fellow at the Missouri School of Journalism, questions what the rise of cloud computing means for journalists and their privacy. He argues that the Privacy Protection Act (PPA) has barely caught up with the internet age, let alone cloud computing.  Read his full article on CJR.  

Should the Privacy Protection Act be updated to reflect the way we store data now?

Do you use cloud services to store your data (Google docs, Dropbox, Flickr, Google calendar etc)? What precautions are you taking to protect data? Has your data ever been compromised?

Looking for more information about how the PPA affects journalists? Digital Due Process, a coalition of privacy groups, companies, and think tanks that lobbies Congress on this issue, has more information.

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