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Subject line surveillance: Why a bill passed in in the infancy of email still governs your inbox

Subject line surveillance: Why a bill passed in in the infancy of email still governs your inbox

by Jacob Meschke and Natalie Escobar | Mar 17, 2016 | Topics

WASHINGTON — It’s 12:01 a.m. on day 181 after receiving an email from a friend. For the past six months, the government would have needed a search warrant to read the contents of this email. Now it’s fair game. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986...

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