U.S. bill on email privacy gathers majority support in the House

A bill to force government agencies to get warrants before they access the email of people under investigation advanced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday after a majority of lawmakers signed on as co-sponsors. The White House has also endorsed efforts to rewrite the old law. Legislation to rewrite the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a statute passed in pre-Web 1986, now ...

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