In a recent report from the US tech companies, they said that they want the country's privacy laws to be updated.

The companies and many other technology-related groups have stated that government has a free access to lot of private online data. This, they claim, interferes into the privacy of these private entities.

It corresponds to the Digital Due Process initiative, which has been laid by Google, eBay and other technology giants. They seek to update the 'medieval' privacy act of 1986.

The Digital Due Process fights are in sync with the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986. These determines the interference of government in the available private online data, highlights a report from BBC.

Google's new initiative led its senior counsel for law enforcement and information security state, "It is not surprising that a law written in 1986 didn't foresee the privacy protections we need some 25 years later."

However, this movement that involves a joint effort of 30 global technology companies and privacy groups, elucidates that it's a 'patchwork' of highly conspicuous and mystifying laws that may have been misinterpreted by the courts of law.