Re: [privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mai l

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

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- -- Dave Dittrich <dittrich () u washington edu> wrote:

> Fergie wrote:
> > 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

Yes, indeed -- I do believe it in fact does.

Having lived in Austin for several years, I came to appreciate the
historical context of the Steve Jackson Games case -- and the
fact that it was one of the key events that led to the formation
of the EFF.

Also, from the EFF Archives:
https://www.eff.org/legal/cases/SJG/

And a bonus link:
http://effaustin.org/about.html

"EFF-Austin was originally formed in 1991 with the intention that it would
become the first chapter of the national Electronic Frontier Foundation,
however EFF decided not to become a chapters organization, and EFF-Austin
became a separately-incorporated, independent nonprofit organization
working focusing on cyber liberties, digital rights, and emerging
technologies. EFF-Austin became dormant in 1997, and was revived by
original co-founders Steve Jackson and Jon Lebkowsky in 2002."

- - ferg (who occasionally posts on the EFF Austin website)

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

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