A U.S. House of Representatives committee has advanced a bill to give email and cloud-stored data new privacy protections. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search data that’s more than six months old. Privacy advocates and tech companies have been pushing Congress to update a 30-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act. It’s unclear if the legislation can pass both the House and the Senate this year, because the legislative process often grinds to a halt in the final months before a national election.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3055941/house-panel-moves-to-require-warrants-for-stored-data.html