Senate bill rewrite lets Feds read your e-mail without warrants
Both articles by Declan McCullagh
Proposed law scheduled for a vote next week
originally increased Americans' e-mail privacy.
Then law enforcement complained.
Now it increases government access to e-mail and other digital files.
Sen. Patrick Leahy previously said his bill boosts Americans' e-mail privacy protections
by "requiring that the government obtain a search warrant."
That's no longer the case.
Here are the proposed amendments in question
Proposed amendments to EPCA
Related Article:
Prosecutors say Americans have "no privacy interest"
in location records revealing minute-to-minute movements
of their mobile devices,
even when they're not in use.