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The legislation "is widely supported by the tech industry and privacy advocates." [1]The Electronic Frontier Foundation has pushed for the legislation for over six years, hailing the House vote in favor of the legislation in 2016 as "a win for user privacy" and urging the Senate to approve it without weakening amendments. [8]
Another aspect of email privacy is the privacy risk that arises from embedded file metadata in email attachments. Such metadata can divulge privacy compromising data, both to unauthorized parties that gain access to the email message, as well as to the intended recipient of the email message.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held in 2010 that users did have a reasonable expectation of privacy in the contents of their e-mail in United States v. Warshak , although no other court of appeals has followed suit.
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Introduced in the Senate as S. 3418 by Samuel Ervin Jr. (D–NC) on May 1, 1974; Committee consideration by Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs; Passed the Senate on November 21, 1974 ()
Get a separate email account for personal use. Keep your work and personal email accounts separate. Usually companies have the legal right to read your work email correspondence, which may include any personal information you have stored on your computer. Teach your children not to give out personal information online without your permission
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When the law was initially passed, emails were stored on a third party's server for only a short period of time, just long enough to facilitate transfer of email to the consumer's email client, which was generally located on their personal or work computer.