The US Senate Judiciary Committee today approved a bill that would require authorities to produce warrants illustrating probable cause before retrieving email records and other data stored on the web. Though the committee voted unanimously in favor of the measure, which would amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the changes face a rocky road to becoming law as they'll need to gain passage among the full Senate and House of Representatives. Sponsoring the bill is Senator Patrick Leahy, who just last week was the fixture of a controversy that alleged lawmakers were planning to loosen such privacy restrictions for federal agencies — a rumor that the senator quickly denied.
Instead, the amendments will eliminate the "180-day...
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