The House of Representatives unanimously passed the Email Privacy Act (H.R. 699), closing a significant loophole in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, first passed in 1986. Now the Senate is ready to move the bill.

The Email Privacy Act is simple: it requires the government to get a probable cause warrant from a judge before obtaining private communications and documents stored online with companies such as Google, Facebook, and Dropbox—regardless of how long they have been stored.

Senators need to hear from you. Without sustained pressure from the public, the Senate Judiciary Committee could adopt a weakened version of the bill, which would leave loopholes for unreasonable privacy invasions by the government.

The Email Privacy Act is supported by Republicans and Democrats, by technology companies and advocacy groups. People across the political spectrum recognize that the law is out of date and in need of a critical security patch.

Please help us bring email privacy law out of the 1980s. Contact your senator today.