Companies including Amazon, eBay and Facebook have joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation and dozens of other groups in sending letters to Congress demanding lawmakers finalize a bill that would require officials to get a warrant before searching people’s old emails or other items stored in the cloud, The Hill reports. “Because of all its benefits, there is an extraordinary consensus around … reform—one unmatched by any other technology and privacy issue,” the groups wrote to leaders of the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, adding that passing a bill “sends a powerful message—Congress can act swiftly on crucial, widely supported, bipartisan legislation.”
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