A far-reaching bill that would require the government to obtain a warrant to search through people’s emails now has majority support in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Email Privacy Act now has 218 co-sponsors — the number needed for the bill to pass if it is brought up for a vote in the House. The bill seeks to update the privacy protections for electronic communications stored by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and other third parties. Critics have long argued that the law governing such data, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) of 1986, is woefully inadequate.”]