The Securities and Exchange Commission should not have...
The Securities and Exchange Commission should not have a carveout in S-607, the bill from Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, that seeks to update the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a group of House Republicans said in a…
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statement Tuesday. The group -- including Reps. Justin Amash of Michigan, Joe Barton of Texas, Tom Graves of Georgia, Steve Scalise of Louisiana and Kevin Yoder of Kansas -- said the Senate should oppose the SEC’s request to access without a warrant electronic communications stored by service providers. Earlier this year, Yoder and Graves introduced HR-1852, the Email Privacy Act. “The Fourth Amendment of the Constitution requires the SEC to get a warrant to read postal mail -- why should it be any different for email?” Yoder said in Tuesday’s statement. “If we carve out one civil agency, every civil agency would clamor for an exemption and email privacy reform would be rendered meaningless."