The Hill reports on a petition on the White House website calling for an update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) to require police to obtain a warrant before accessing online communications. The petition reached 100,000 signatures by its December 12 deadline, meaning it requires an office response from the White House. The Justice Department said earlier this year that updating ECPA has “considerable merit” but recommended civil regulatory investigations be exempted from the warrant requirement because regulators don’t have access to the warrant power.
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