The House passed the Email Privacy Act in a voice vote yesterday, effectively sending the bill to the Senate for consideration. The law would require law enforcement to obtain a search warrant before requesting access to old emails and digital communications stored on tech companies' remote servers.
This isn’t the first time the House has passed the Email Privacy Act. In fact, the bill made it through the House less than a year ago, only to fail in the Senate. At the time, senators attempted to tack on additional controversial surveillance amendments to the bill, which led it to expire. Alabama senator Jeff Sessions (currently awaiting confirmation as the next US attorney general) wanted law enforcement to be able to demand data from...
via The Verge
