Bill to limit reach of US warrants faces uphill battle in Congress

Mario Trujillo reports:

Congress faces a tough slog to update the email privacy law at the center of Microsoft’s fight against a U.S. warrant mandating that it turn over a customer’s email account stored in Ireland.

Competing bills to reform the decades old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) have gone nowhere in Congress in the past few years.

Read more on The Hill.