{"id":40071,"date":"2013-06-25T05:58:56","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=40071"},"modified":"2013-06-25T05:58:56","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T10:58:56","slug":"latta-co-sponsor-of-email-privacy-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2013\/06\/25\/latta-co-sponsor-of-email-privacy-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Latta co-sponsor of Email Privacy Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Information submitted<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has signed on as a co-sponsor to House Resolution 1852, the Email Privacy Act, a bill to update current privacy laws and improve protections for electronic communications information stored or maintained by third-party service providers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDigital communication privacy laws have not been updated since 1986, and yet technology has changed dramatically and is consistently evolving,\u201d Latta said. \u201cWe must ensure that privacy laws keep up with technology and provide the courts with clarity in an ever-changing field.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis bill updates outdated laws by establishing a well-defined legal standard for the release of email and other electronic communications,\u201d Latta added. \u201cGovernment can and must play a role in upholding the Fourth Amendment and guarding against government intrusion in our personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Under current law, electronic communications stored or maintained by a third-party provider can be obtained by a government entity if that digital communication is older than 180 days. H.R. 1852 removes the outdated 180-day rule and requires a search warrant based on probable cause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information submitted WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013\u00a0U.S. Representative Bob Latta (R-Bowling Green) has signed on as a co-sponsor to House Resolution 1852, the Email Privacy Act, a bill to update current privacy laws and improve protections for electronic communications information stored or maintained by third-party service providers. \u201cDigital communication privacy laws have not been updated since 1986, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-01 01:14:43","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}