In what stunned many privacy advocates and lawmakers, Nextgov reports, Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairwoman Mary Jo White said the agency has not recently used subpoenas to obtain U.S. citizens’ emails from Internet service providers (ISPs). “We’ve not, to date, to my knowledge, proceeded to subpoena the ISPs,” she said. “But that is something that we think is a critical authority to be able to maintain, done in the right way and with sufficient solicitousness.” Rep. Kevin Yoder (R-KS) said “With this revelation, we may have cleared a major hurdle in digital-privacy reform,” and the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Chris Calabrese said White “just admitted that she hasn’t used the power that has been holding up” Electronic Communications Privacy Act reform.
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