My Way News - New California law extends privacy rights to electronic data
My Way News reports: "California will require police to get a court order before they can search messages, photos and other digital data stored on phones or company servers in the nation's most-populous state. [...] Advocates have tried to pass legislation at the national level for years without any success. The Email Privacy Act, a proposed update to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, has 300 sponsors in the U.S. House of Representatives, but its future remains unclear."