How to provide access to electronic communications according to a constitution and set of laws that were created and amended in a distinctly analog world is leaving the legal community and the court system frankly baffled. Especially in the wake of Edward Snowden's leaking of National Security Agency secrets to the media and Army Private Bradley Manning's data dump to Wikileaks, Americans' rights to privacy and traditional search-and-seizure protections are being turned on their heads.

In an effort to amend the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (which predated the Internet), the Democratic-controlled Senate has failed to bring any amendments to a floor vote. Now it seems the best hope for resolving the issue – even with its oxymoronic "summer recess" fast approaching – may rest in the hands of the House of Representatives.
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