A bill to give email and other documents stored in the cloud new protections from government searches may be dead in the U.S. Senate. The bill would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search emails stored with third parties for longer than six months. Sponsors of the bill, Senators Mike Lee and Patrick Leahy, called the amendment a “poison pill” that kills their ECPA revamp. The amendment would allow the FBI to use the administrative subpoena NSL program to obtain electronic data from communications providers.”]
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