New bill would oversee government access to your email
Federal law enforcement agencies soon may have their hands tied when it comes to accessing your email and other personal data if a new bill currently making its way through Congress becomes law. Laws governing the privacy of your emails were drafted in the mid-1980s, long before AOL and Gmail. But efforts to update those rules have some fearing the government's fingers will be flipping through their digital mail. Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. , has drafted a substitute bill for the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which was originally written in 1986 long before things like electronic archiving and cloud storage. The update, which will be under review next Thursday, modernizes rules for police seeking to obtain private email for investigative purposes -- rules that had been surprisingly lax.
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| 0 | “The standard amount of storage was much smaller when the bill was originally written,” he told ... |
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| 0 | “This fight is about level of access,” Butler said. “The oversight will disappear after 180 days, but a whole new problem could occur. A good example is with the recent incident involving General Petraeus.” |
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