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Email Privacy Act has another run at becoming law
If the definition of madness is doing the same thing and expecting different results, someone should check in on the Email Privacy Act. The bill is taking its third run at becoming law after failing to pass the house in 2013 and the senate in 2016. Reuters reports that the bill was waved through congress but faces a difficult time of it in the Senate.
Email privacy bill finally moves forward
After seemingly taking ages to do anything, Congress is at last moving forward on better email privacy safeguards. A House committee has voted unanimously to approve the Email Privacy Act, a bill which would require that federal officials get a warrant to access email (and any other digital communication) if it's older than 180 days. The measure still has to make the usual rounds through legislative and executive branches before it can become law, but it already has the backing of the majority of the House. Barring surprises, there's not likely to be much resistance.
