Senator introduces bill requiring warrant for e-mail history
After more than 25 years since the passage of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), Sen. Patrick Leahy is hoping to get the out-of-date privacy law up to speed by introducing a new bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee today, according to Ars Technica.
The key component of this new bill is that law enforcement officials would no longer have the ease of freely being able to read people’s personal e-mail and online communication — they’d need a warrant first. As the law now stands, police are allowed to get individual’s private correspondence by simply asking e-mail providers…
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