U.S. Justice Department Open to E-Mail Privacy Law Change
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The U.S. Justice Department said it’s open to changing a part of a 1986 law allowing authorities to obtain e-mails more than 180 days old without a search warrant.
There is “no principled basis” to treat e-mail differently if it’s less than or more than 180 days old, Elana Tyrangiel, acting assistant attorney general said in written testimony for a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing tomorrow.