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04-28-2016, 08:55 PM
House passes email privacy bill with unanimous vote
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The United States House of Representatives unanimously passed an updated email privacy bill on Wednesday that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before requesting tech**logy companies to hand over emails that are more than 180 days old, which is roughly equivalent to six months.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act — passed in 1986 — only requires that law enforcement obtain a subpoena.*
SEE ALSO: This is how hard it was to send email in 1984 (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/email-in-the-80s/)
Back then, email users often downloaded their messages, and email servers didn't usually keep back-up copies. This led Congress to consider emails older than 180 days to be abandoned property (https://epic.org/privacy/ecpa/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/house-unanimously-passes-email-privacy-bill/)
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The United States House of Representatives unanimously passed an updated email privacy bill on Wednesday that would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before requesting tech**logy companies to hand over emails that are more than 180 days old, which is roughly equivalent to six months.
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act — passed in 1986 — only requires that law enforcement obtain a subpoena.*
SEE ALSO: This is how hard it was to send email in 1984 (http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/email-in-the-80s/)
Back then, email users often downloaded their messages, and email servers didn't usually keep back-up copies. This led Congress to consider emails older than 180 days to be abandoned property (https://epic.org/privacy/ecpa/).* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/28/house-unanimously-passes-email-privacy-bill/)
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