Tell Congress: end warrantless email searches! Use the tools at VanishingRights.com to ask your representative to co-sponsor the Email Privacy Act (HR 1852).
You know the outdated Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) needs to be reformed. Written in 1986, back when we were concerned about landline voice calls instead of cloud storage and cell phone location data, it contains loopholes that law enforcement has exploited to conduct warrantless searches of Americans’ emails and other digital papers and effects.
There’s a massive movement to fix this and ensure our Fourth Amendment rights are respected in the digital world. Last December, over 100,000 people signed our coalition’s We the People petition for ECPA reform, requiring a White House response. We’re still waiting for them to reply, but Congress heard us loud and clear, and the Email Privacy Act (HR 1852) — which would make law enforcement get warrants for searches of data in the cloud — has a whopping 180 co-sponsors!
But that’s not enough. We need 218 votes to pass the House, so we’re shooting for 218 sponsors to guarantee its passage. If you want to stop warrantless searches of your emails, go to VanishingRights.com to see if your representative is a sponsor — if they’re not, ask them to be, and if they are, thank them! We can win this fight, but only if we show that the public is behind reform. Act now!
See our handy infographic to learn more about what’s wrong with ECPA, and how we can fix it.