[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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