No GOP Senator Supports Bill to Protect Cloud E-Mail Privacy

Five months ago, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) introduced a bill to update the nation’s privacy laws to protect citizen’s data stored in the cloud from warrantless searches. The move was backed by tech powerhouses including Google and Microsoft, though law enforcement opposes restricting their power to easily get data in Gmail and Hotmail. Five months later, the bill remains in the ether, without a hearing, for the lack of a single Republican senator backing Leahy’s measure to require police to get a warrant to search data stored on any online service if that data is older than six months.

Full Article