[privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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

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