House Passes Email Privacy Act

Yesterday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 387, the Email Privacy Act which updates the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to require a warrant to retrieve user communications from service providers. In 1986, Congress enacted ECPA to both protect the privacy of an individual’s electronic communications and provide the government with a lawful means for…

Extra-Territoriality of Government Email Searches Heats Up in Court

In July 2016, Microsoft won a victory in the Second Circuit in quashing a warrant issued under the Stored Communications Act to produce the contents of a customer’s e‐ mail account stored on a server located outside the United States. The court held that seizure of information from Microsoft’s servers in Ireland was prohibited since…

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House Passes Email Privacy Act

Extra-Territoriality of Government Email Searches Heats Up in Court