Bipartisan Bill Would Mandate Warrant To Search Emails

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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[ShanghaiBill]

Why would then need to distance themselves from the president to be seen as more moderate than the insane far-right-wing Republicans?

The Oberton Window has shifted to the right in America. What used to be "insane far-right-wing" is now considered normal, and what used to be centrist is now considered communist. Consider Obamacare: The policy behind it was originally proposed by Republicans, and it is to the right of the health care proposal put forward a generation ago by that pinko Richard Nixon.

Use to?

[fahrbot-bot]

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.

I *still* POP my mail down to my home PC from my ISP and Gmail, though I still have to periodically log into Gmail and purge "deleted" messages (what part of Delete don't you understand Google?) And, no, I don't read personal email elsewhere. And, no, I don't have a smartphone. Not a Luddite, just don't need to be *that* connected.