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[privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail
From: "Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:18:35 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Someone may have already posted this, but I don't recall seeing it. If so, mea culpa. Via The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star-Tribune. [snip] The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don't need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else's computer. That would include all of the Big Four e-mail providers -- Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and Google -- that together hold e-mail accounts for 135 million Americans. [snip] More: http://www.startribune.com/789/story/884388.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.2 (Build 4075) wj8DBQFFiaimq1pz9mNUZTMRArNsAKCBvY4/gj9rbcbSaYntcF425fqcfACfc7/B Txbg0s1ABnYLIrFZnGfHCkA= =6ySB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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- Re: [privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail Dave Dittrich (Dec 20)