p2pnet - rss feed: Court’s landmark email ruling
p2pnet.net news:- The US government must have legal search warrants if it wants to secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, says a landmark ruling from the 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals.
Email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy for their stored emails as they do all their telephone calls, it ruled.
For the past 20 years, the government has routinely used the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) to secretly obtain stored email without warrants, says an American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Democracy & Technology and EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) amicus brief, asserting the SCA violates the Fourth Amendment.
Also See:
EFF - Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches, June 18, 2007
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