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Re: [privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail
From: Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu>
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:07:01 -0800
Fergie wrote:
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.
Doesn't that interpretation differ from the Supreme Court's decision in the Steve Jackson Games case? http://www.sjgames.com/SS/pdk-article.html -- Dave Dittrich Information Assurance Researcher, dittrich () u washington edu The iSchool http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich University of Washington PGP key http://staff.washington.edu/dittrich/pgpkey.txt Fingerprint FE97 0C57 0843 F3EB 49A1 0CD0 8E0C D0BE C838 CCB5 _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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