A lot has changed in the last 24 years: Flat televisions, cell phones, tablets, computers, the internet, and much more. One thing that hasn’t: Communications Privacy Law. Back in 1986, the US instituted the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which protects the public from interception, access, and disclosure of communications data without legal warrant. Unfortunately governments have found a way to circumvent this law, by accessing data (notably email) that is stored on remote servers. But now a number of organizations are pressuring the government to update this law for digital data stored online. (more…)