Case Study
Go Daddy’s Advocacy for Copyright Bill Leads to Boycott
In 2011, the domain registry company Go Daddy’s support of the Stop Online Privacy Act...+ Read more
Technology companies including Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox, and Google were praised for supporting the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act. The law, which was successfully enacted and went into effect in January 2016, requires California law enforcement to get a warrant to gain access to electronic information, including email and text messages, online documents, sensitive metadata, and location information. Press warmly applauded the companies for “taking note of customers’ privacy concerns” in uniting behind the effort.