[privacy] Israeli Court: E-Mail Surveillance is Akin to Wiretapping

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

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Via Haaretz News.

[snip]

Is it permissible for the police or any other body to trace your e-mails?
Tel Aviv District Court Judge Khaled Kabub ruled yesterday that copying of
electronic mail for purposes of surveillance constitutes illegal
wiretapping. This means that any time the police force wishes to conduct
surveillance of e-mail, it will be required to obtain special authorization
from a District Court president.

Granting of such authorization will be measured, for limited periods, and
only for suspected crimes punishable by imprisonment of at least seven
years.

Judge Kabub thus disqualified all of the e-mails obtained by the police
during the investigation of the so-called "Trojan Horse Affair," ruling the
evidence inadmissible.

[snip]

More:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=822234

- - ferg

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