Google Says It Always Requires Warrants for User Email and Cloud Data

Google revealed Wednesday that it always requires a search warrant whenever authorities seek access to the content of a user's emails or documents stored in Google's cloud, Wired reported.

The company's insistence in asking for a warrant is seemingly against current law. Particularly, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, which allows authorities to get access to information stored on a server for more than 180 days with a simple subpoena. The law states that if there are "reasonable grounds to believe" that the information could be useful as part of an investigation, there's no need for a judge's intervention.

The law was passed in 1986, when emails were deleted from servers ev…
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