From the article: "There have long been calls on Congress to upgrade e-mail
privacy, but it still has not — and recently, it let us down once again. This
failure to act is not the usual Washington inertia or gridlock. It is because
there are a lot of people in government who like the idea of being able to read
citizens’ private e-mail. And Internet users — who have gotten good at pushing
back against Facebook over privacy issues — have not been putting pressure on
Congress to strengthen e-mail privacy." Read more