Most people would be surprised to learn that a recent email has slightly more protection from government surveillance than a six-month old email sitting in your online inbox.

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One of the most egregious ECPA issues is how it treats the protection of email.

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Coming out of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the legislation included heightened privacy protection for your email, requiring the government to get a warrant to peek at it.

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This particular draft of the bill incorporates amendments suggested by Senator Chuck Grassley who has expressed concern that too much privacy protection for our email could negatively impact safety tasks.

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Indeed, it seems counterintuitive to grant greater protection to new, unopened email spam than to purposefully archived emails.

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That's a bad idea: Many personal email services do not offer the same sort of protection against malware and phishing that employees get at work.

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From the so-called Cadillac plans to the increased 1099 reporting requirements, no single piece of legislation has generated as much email, comments and downright hullaballoo, as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

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In the subject field of the email, you will need to add a password alongside with the name of your school, for child protection reasons.

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