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The White House must issue an official response to a petition asking for stronger email privacy protections,rnafter the petition hit the necessary 100,000 signatures needed by Thursday (http://1.usa.gov/1avKNbR).rnDigital 4th, an industry and advocacy coalition, filed the petition, attempting to restart debate over updating thern27-year-old Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CD Nov 14 p19). The group was formed in March tornadvocate for an ECPA modernization bill from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,rnand Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, which would protect electronic communications collected and maintained byrnthird-party service providers (CD March 20 p10). The bill never made it out of committee. "Several bills inrnCongress would fix this by updating ECPA to require a warrant, but regulatory bodies are blocking reform inrnorder to gain new powers of warrantless access," said the petition. "We call on the Obama Administration tornsupport ECPA reform and to reject any special rules that would force online service providers to disclose ourrnemail without a warrant.”