The Email Privacy Act unanimously passed through the House of Representatives Wednesday, with the bill now heading to an uncertain future in the Senate, The Hill reports. The bill was expected to pass through the House, having more support than any other legislation in Congress. The Email Privacy Act is one step closer to updating the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 by requiring law enforcement to obtain warrants to examine customer emails, removing the provision where a subpoena could be substituted for emails older than 180 days. "We know the ways that Americans communicate today is in a way in which they expect that those transmissions are private, and they expect that the government will honor that and not search those emails and not capture them for other purposes," said Rep. Kevin Yoder, R-Kan.
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