The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 is antiquated and does not establish email messages as being protected under a "reasonable expectation of privacy."
Several governmental agencies, most recently including the IRS, have interpreted the verbiage in this Act to mean that email messages can be accessed and searched without the need for a warrant.
These warrant-less searches are violating our 4th Amendment rights, and are telling of a basic misunderstanding of the new paradigms in communications created by the technological age we live in today.
The intent of the 4th Amendment was to protect our private data, regardless of the medium in which is is stored.
Please urge Congress to revise or overturn the ECPA.