The U.S. House of Representatives has unanimously approved a bill that will restrict government access to public communications held in electronic storage. The Email Privacy Act would strengthen email and data privacy stored in the cloud. PC World reports: The Email Privacy Act would require law enforcement agencies to get court-ordered warrants to search email and other data stored with third parties for longer than six months. The House on Wednesday voted 419-0 to pass the legislation and send it to the Senate. The bill, with 314 cosponsors in the House, would update a 30-year-old law called the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA). Some privacy advocates and tech companies have been pushing Congress to update ECPA since 2011. A lot has changed since ECPA first passed, including user expectations of data privacy, supporters argued. Thirty years ago, few U.S. residents had email accounts, and data storage was “finite and expensive,” said Representative Bob Goodlatte, a Virginia Republican. “In 1986, mail was sent through the U.S. Postal Service, a search engine was called a library, tweets were the sounds made by birds in the trees, and clouds were found only in the sky,” he said. “It was unheard of that a commercial product [...]