• The Hill, Thursday, September 17, 2015 5:12 AM

Google was among a number of technology advocates at a Senate hearing last night that accused federal agencies of creating "distractions" from updating email privacy law. "We certainly appreciate the concerns that have been raised in the rather long debate about this provision, but I'm afraid these are really just distractions," said Richard Salgado, Google's director of law enforcement and information security at the hearing. The hearing was the first for Congress to revise the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) which allows the government to use a subpoena, rather than a warrant, to require tech companies to hand over emails that are more than 180 days old.

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