I recently wrote a post for The Gazette on loopholes in email (and other electronic communications) privacy and the need for reform. Here’s a short excerpt:
The act’s authors didn’t imagine people would have a reason or the means to store email longer than 180 days. Relatively few people used email in 1986, and those who did rarely kept them after sending or receiving them. The Web didn’t even exist. Neither did cloud computing, social media or smartphones.
You can read the whole piece here: http://bit.ly/1NcIFeO