Email Privacy (US)

Email Privacy Bill Unanimously Passes U.S. House

Dustin Volz | April 27, 2016

The U.S. House of Representatives voted unanimously on Wednesday to require law enforcement authorities to get a search warrant before asking technology companies to hand over old emails.The bill's prospects in the Senate remain unclear, though the 419-0 vote in the House was likely to put pressure on the upper chamber to approve it.

Source: https://sites.utexas.edu/tunggadjajaincyberspace/email-privacy/ [Key: MDA = Mobile Delivery Agent, MTA = Mobile Transport Agent. For explanation of terminology see http://ccm.net/contents/116-how-email-works-mta-mda-mua]

<more at http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-congress-email-idUSKCN0XO1J7; related articles and links: https://sites.utexas.edu/tunggadjajaincyberspace/email-privacy/ (Information and Email Privacy. October 2015) and https://www.wired.com/2016/04/finally-might-verge-email-privacy-reform/ (It May Soon Be a Lot Harder for the Law to Get Into Your Email. April 29, 2015)>