On February 6, 2017, the House of Representatives passed the Email Privacy Act, which requires the government to obtain a warrant before accessing stored electronic communications held by third-party service providers. This bill amends the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, under which emails that have been opened or are more than 180 days old are available with a subpoena. The same bill passed the House last year but did not pass the Senate before the end of the session.
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