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Bill Summary & Status

E-Mail Privacy Act of 2005 (Introduced in Senate)

S 936 IS

109th CONGRESS

1st Session

S. 936

To ensure privacy for e-mail communications.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

April 28, 2005

Mr. LEAHY (for himself and Mr. SUNUNU) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

A BILL

To ensure privacy for e-mail communications.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the `E-Mail Privacy Act of 2005'.

SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF THE DEFINITION OF INTERCEPT.

    Section 2510(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by striking `through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device.' and inserting `contemporaneous with transit, or on an ongoing basis during transit, through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other device or process, notwithstanding that the communication may simultaneously be in electronic storage;'.