As the Senate Judiciary Committee plans to examine, and possibly change, the Email Privacy Act, a group of 70 major tech companies are asking senators to approve the bill without any alterations, The Hill reports. The organizations sent a letter to the Senate urging it to ratify the “carefully negotiated compromise” immediately, without any amendments added to “weaken” the bill. Signatories of the letter include Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Yahoo. Despite questions about what version of the Email Privacy Act will be examined by the panel, the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on the exact same text as the one unanimously passed by the House of Representatives.
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