In an era in which tech legislation can take years before passage, the “Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act” (“CLOUD Act”) was introduced on February 6th and signed into law on March 23rd — without any hearing or debate. The CLOUD Act seeks to streamline the process by which law enforcement seeks electronic information that…
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…
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…
