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Email Privacy Bill Introduced in the Senate
- The Hill, Friday, February 13, 2015 5:05 PM
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch has introduced an email privacy bill that would require law enforcement agencies to get a warrant in order to require a U.S. company to share its customers emails that are older than 180 days. The bill would also allow the U.S. government access Americans' data on data stored overseas. Apple, Microsoft, IBM and Verizon have supported the proposal. However, The Internet Association, which works with the likes of Google, Facebook and Yahoo, are concerned about the data storage overseas policy. The group is concerned that it warned might inspire host governments to access private data, a threat to online privacy.
