Fourth Amendment supporters: Obama’s NSA reforms must include ECPA reform

Published January 16, 2014 5:00am ET



Proponents of reform to the National Security Agency‘s data collection program say that any reforms must include changes to the Electronic Communications privacy Act, a bill that was originally passed in 1986 and has not been updated to address changing technology.

Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced a bill in April to amend the ECPA in order to update the law’s privacy protections to relate to 21st century technologies.

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