An end to warrantless email searches?

“What we’ve seen is just an amount of information that has overtaken Congressional offices and the American people,” added Mark Jaycox, legislative analyst for the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

“ECPA certainly has taken a back seat, like many other tech reforms,” he said, pointing to an attempt to update the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the statute that was used to prosecute the late Internet activist Aaron Swartz.