Privacy legislation reintroduced for email older than 180 days
A bill has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that would require law enforcement agencies to get a warrant before they poke around users’ emails and other communications in the cloud that are older than 180 days.
The Email Privacy Act, reintroduced on Monday, aims to fix a loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act that allows the government to search without a warrant email and other electronic communications that are older than 180 days and stored on servers of third-party service providers such as Google and Yahoo.
“Thanks to the wording in a more than 30-year-old law, the papers in your desk are better protected than the emails in your inbox,” the Electronic Frontier Foundation, digital rights organization, said in a blog post Monday.
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