ECPA — the Electronic Communications Privacy Act — is an outdated law that was supposed to be about protecting user privacy, but was written nearly three decades ago and now does exactly the opposite. Beyond being complex in ridiculous and unnecessary ways, things that were true decades ago are no longer the case. For example, the idea that emails left for 180 days on a server no longer need a warrant because under ECPA they are considered „abandoned.“ Whereas in the real world, where all email lives on servers for quite some time, that idea makes no sense.