Agencies Say They Need Access to Americans’ Emails Without a Warrant

A Bi­par­tis­an bid to re­form an elec­tron­ic-pri­vacy law has the support of the tech community and the White House, but fed­er­al law en­force­ment of­fi­cials tell Con­gress the changes would hamper civil pro­sec­u­tion. Civil law en­force­ment agen­cies like the Fed­er­al Trade Com­mis­sion and the Se­cur­it­ies and Ex­change Com­mis­sion would not be able to ob­tain crit­ic­al in­form­a­tion if the law were changed to re­quire crim­in­al war­rants...
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