The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI have said they don’t believe they need search warrants for access to Americans’ electronic communications, CNET reports. That’s according to internal documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. U.S. Reps. Tom Graves (R-GA) and Kevin Yoder (R-KS) have introduced a bill aimed at protecting consumer privacy by updating protections for electronic communications stored by third-party service providers, reports The Chattanoogan.com. The E-mail Privacy Act would extend protections for regular mail to e-mail and cloud data. Meanwhile, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has introduced a bill that would repeal the anti-privacy provisions in the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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