Feds may soon need a warrant to read your email — but we’ve been here before
Apr13
Today, the US House Judiciary Committee approved legislation requiring law enforcement agencies secure a warrant to obtain email stored in the cloud. The Email Privacy act would supersede Reagan-era legislation that allowed authorities to access email from service providers without a warrant if the message was at least six months old. Of course, this legislation was written when CompuServe ruled the roost and documents were considered ‘abandoned’ after six months under that piece of legislation. Chances are the approved legislation goes nowhere. We’ve had similar pieces that have been approved or debated by Congress for nearly a decade and we still don’t have a…
This story continues at The Next Web