Email Privacy Act - Demand a search warrant for access to analyze your email, private online messages, etc.

06/10/2016 - 13:10


If law enforcement wants to rummage through our Gmail accounts or read our private messages on Facebook, it should be required to go to a judge and get a search warrant. Tell the Senate to pass the Email Privacy Act, and keep the police out of our email.

The House of Representatives unanimously passed the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699), closing a significant loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, first passed in 1986. Now the Senate is ready to move the bill.

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