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Feds Won't Update Archaic Email Privacy Act

  • ZDNet, Monday, August 3, 2015 9:23 AM

The federal government will not require federal agencies including the FBI to get a warrant in order to access the older emails of consumers when conducting investigations. Despite a popular push from citizens to update the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) which does not require a warrant to access emails that were older than six months old, the White House responded that they are not going to "endorse a single ECPA-reform bill at this time."

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