{"id":8513,"date":"2013-03-24T13:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:51:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T13:51:10","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8513","title":{"rendered":"arstechnica: Finally, Feds say cops\u2019 access to your e-mail shouldn\u2019t be time-dependent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>arstechnica: ECPA reform: <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2013\/03\/finally-feds-say-cops-access-to-your-e-mail-shouldnt-be-time-dependant\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+arstechnica\/index+%28Ars+Technica+-+All+content%29\">Finally, Feds say cops\u2019 access to your e-mail shouldn\u2019t be time-dependent | Policymakers and civil libertarians hope that ECPA reform comes soon<\/a> by Cyrus Farivar:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On Tuesday, the Department of Justice acknowledged for the first time that the notion that e-mail more than 180 days old should require a different legal standard is outdated.<\/p>\n<p>This marked shift in legal theory, combined with new House subcommittee hearings and new Senate legislation, might just actually yield real, meaningful reform on the much-maligned Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It&#8217;s an act, by the way, that dates back to 1986.<\/p>\n<p>As Ars&#8217; Tim Lee wrote in November 2012, \u201cECPA requires a warrant to obtain freshly sent e-mail before it&#8217;s been opened by the recipient. But once an e-mail has been opened, or once it has been sitting in the recipient&#8217;s e-mail box for 180 days, a lower standard applies. These rules simply don&#8217;t line up with the way modern e-mail systems work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In written testimony presented to a House subcommittee on Tuesday, Acting Assistant Attorney General Elana Tyrangiel concurred with that idea.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Typical: I wrote to one of my Senators about getting in on the ground floor on ECPA reform, and he didn&#8217;t even bother to respond. And he faces a tough re-election fight in &#8217;14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}