[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 936 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
109th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 936
To ensure privacy for e-mail communications.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
April 28, 2005
Mr. Leahy (for himself and Mr. Sununu) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary
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A BILL
To ensure privacy for e-mail communications.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``E-Mail Privacy Act of 2005''.
SEC. 2. CLARIFICATION OF THE DEFINITION OF INTERCEPT.
Section 2510(4) of title 18, United States Code, is amended by
striking ``through the use of any electronic, mechanical, or other
device.'' and inserting ``contemporaneous with transit, or on an
ongoing basis during transit, through the use of any electronic,
mechanical, or other device or process, notwithstanding that the
communication may simultaneously be in electronic storage;''.
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