Senators seek update to Reagan-era digital privacy law

Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. Photo courtesy of U.S. SenateWASHINGTON — Vermont’s senior senator is backing an effort to update and strengthen the federal law that governs law enforcement access to personal digital information.
Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, introduced a bill in the Senate last week to modernize the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act.
Leahy was part of the Reagan administration-era effort to write and pass the initial law, which continues t