The Hill: Bill to limit reach of US warrants faces uphill battle in Congress

The Hill: Bill to limit reach of US warrants faces uphill battle in Congress by Mario Trujillo:

Congress faces a tough slog to update the email privacy law at the center of Microsoft’s fight against a U.S. warrant mandating that it turn over a customer’s email account stored in Ireland.

Competing bills to reform the decades old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) have gone nowhere in Congress in the past few years.