{"id":21661,"date":"2016-04-13T14:11:24","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21661"},"modified":"2016-04-13T14:17:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-13T19:17:59","slug":"nacdl-press-release-house-judiciary-passed-out-email-privacy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21661","title":{"rendered":"NACDL Press Release: House Judiciary passed out Email Privacy Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today the House Judiciary Committee passed out of committee the <a href=\"https:\/\/judiciary.house.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/HR-699-Amendment-in-the-Nature-of-a-Substitute.pdf\">Email Privacy Act<\/a> (H.R. 699) by a vote of 28-0. This bill is a long overdue update of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a bill passed in 1986 that governs the treatment of electronic communications. The Email Privacy Act establishes that law enforcement officers must obtain a warrant to access the content of most electronic communications and cloud-stored content from third-party providers and eliminates the arbitrary rule that would allow the government to obtain emails older than 180 days with a subpoena.<\/p>\n<p>The Hill: <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/congress-blog\/technology\/275929-congress-its-time-to-vote-on-email-privacy\">Congress, it\u2019s time to vote on email privacy<\/a> by Reps. Jared Polis and Suzan DelBene<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today the House Judiciary Committee passed out of committee the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699) by a vote of 28-0. This bill is a long overdue update of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), a bill passed in 1986 that &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=21661\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-e-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21664,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21661\/revisions\/21664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}