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Privacy
legislation reintroduced for mail older than 180 days
The bill would require law enforcement to get a warrant
to read mails older than 180 days
By John Ribeiro
A bill has been reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that
would require that law enforcement agencies 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 warrant email and other electronic communications older than 180 days,
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,” digital rights
organization, Electronic Frontier Foundation said in a blog post Monday.
The bill was passed by the House of Representatives last year but stalled
in the Senate. Representative Kevin Yoder, a Republican from Kansas and Jared
Polis, a Democrat from Colorado, said they are reintroducing the legislation
because the Senate failed to act on it before the 114th Congress came to a
close.
If the legislation becomes law, government agencies will have to obtain a warrant
based on a showing of probable cause to compel service providers to
disclose emails and other electronic communications of Americans, regardless of
the age of the mails or the means of storage. In the original version of the
legislation, government also has to notify the person whose account is
disclosed, along with a copy of the search warrant and other information,
within a stipulated period.
Privacy groups and tech companies backed the legislation when it was first
introduced. But it failed to clear the Senate as it was bogged down with
amendments such as the requirement of mandatory compliance by service providers
without court oversight when law enforcement claimed an emergency as an
exception for asking for user data. John Cornyn, a Republican senator from
Texas, proposed an amendment that would expand the
information that the FBI can obtain with a National Security Letter without
prior judicial oversight.
“Government access to communications without oversight of warrants is a
dangerous path for any country that supports democratic values,” said Ed Black,
CEO and President of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, in
a statement Monday.
“Rules on how the government can access electronic communications in
criminal investigations have simply not kept up with advances in modern
technology. Indeed, US law still treats data stored in the cloud differently
than data stored on a local computer,” said Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation vice president Daniel Castro in a statement.
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