From the article: "It had the makings of a shockingly reasonable legislative
bargain: Two outdated federal privacy statutes would be reformed together,
removing some unnecessarily stringent restrictions on sharing video records
while finally imposing a clear warrant requirement for government searches of
e-mail and other private files stored in the “cloud.” Then Congress, perhaps in
homage to Darth Vader, decided to alter
the deal: A bill weakening the Video Privacy Protection Act of 1988 has been sent to the president for his signature,
but without the corresponding badly-needed reforms to the ElectronicCommunications Privacy Act of 1986." Read more
