Today, the bipartisan Email Privacy Act passed the House Judiciary Committee by unanimous vote. In response, Morgan Reed, executive director of ACT | The App Association released the following statement:
The overwhelming vote in the Judiciary Committee today reflects broad support in Congress and throughout the country to modernize our outdated data protection laws. Consumers now expect documents stored in online folders to have the same privacy rights as those stored in a filing cabinet.
More than three-quarters of the House of Representatives supports the Email Privacy Act. The unanimous vote today demonstrates the urgency for clarity in data privacy and law enforcement access to cloud storage.
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