Sec. 3. Increased protections relating to required disclosure of customer communications and password information
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Section 2703 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— in the first sentence, by inserting after A governmental entity may require the disclosure by a provider of electronic communication service the following: or remote computing service ; by striking in an electronic communications system for one hundred and eighty days or less ; and by striking the second sentence; by amending subsection
(b)to read as follows: A governmental entity may require a provider of electronic communication service or remote computing service to disclose the password information pertaining to a subscriber or customer of such service only pursuant to a warrant issued using the procedures described in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure (or in the case of a State court, issued using State warrant procedures) by a court of competent jurisdiction. ; in subsection (c)(1), by inserting after (not including the contents of communications the following: or the password information pertaining to a subscriber or customer of such service ; and in subsection (d), by striking subsection
(b)or
(c)and inserting subsection
(c). Chapter 121 of title 18, United States Code, is amended— in section 2701(c)(3), by striking , 2704, ; by repealing sections 2704 and 2705; and in section 2706, by striking section 2702, 2703, or 2704 and inserting section 2702 or 2703 .