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Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Warrant To Search Emails

Posted by Soulskill on from the of-barn-doors-and-horses dept.

jfruh writes: Bills were introduced into both the House and Senate yesterday that would amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, requiring a warrant to search Americans' email messages stored on third-party servers even if they're more than 180 days old. The current version of the law was passed in 1986, and was written in an environment where most email users downloaded emails to their computer and erased them after reading them.

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  1. Re:Who are you? by jeffmflanagan · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Why would then need to distance themselves from the president to be seen as more moderate than the insane far-right-wing Republicans? Did you fail to notice the wingnut takeover of the Republican party?