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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. RomneyCare by davidwr · · Score: 5, Funny

    Consider Obamacare: The policy behind it was originally proposed by Republicans

    I'm grateful that Obama and Congress got together and passed RomneyCare.

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  2. Re:Who are you? by jythie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh, people propose reasonable bills all the time. It is what is done to them next that one will recognize as our congress...