Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said...
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., said the federal government must obtain a search warrant to access citizens’ private emails. “I am concerned about the growing and unwelcome intrusions into our private lives in cyberspace,” said Leahy in a…
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news release Monday. “I have long believed that our government should obtain a search warrant -- issued by a court -- before gaining access to our email and other private communications.” The committee marks up Thursday at 10 a.m. in 226 Dirksen the Electronic Communications Privacy Act Amendments Act. Introduced by Leahy and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, S-607 seeks to update privacy laws to improve protections for electronic communications stored or maintained by third-party service providers (CD March 20 p3).