The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to strengthen privacy protections for email and other data stored in the cloud. The Email Privacy Act would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search data stored with third parties for longer than six months. The bill, with 314 cosponsors in the House, would update a 30-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) Some privacy advocates and tech companies have been pushing Congress to update ECPA since 2011.”]

