Senate Committee Approves Email Privacy Bill

I guess this is good news as long as no one flip-flops or changes their mind again before the full Senate vote.

The bill moves to the full Senate for its next vote. It makes it slightly more difficult for the government to access the content of a consumer's emails and private files from Google, Yahoo and other Internet providers. Under the current law, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, a warrant is needed only for emails less than 6 months old.