Jun 20 2007
The Court says your email is private
Did you know that, since 1986 the government has had the legal right to read your email without getting a search warrant? That’s the year the Stored Communications Act was passed. A ruling this week by the 6th Circuit Court of appeals changed this, deciding that email holds the same expectation of privacy that telephone conversations do.
Captain Privacy strikes again!
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Seems like that is going to ease some if the issues that surrounded PGP inception.
Agreed this would have it’s own challenges, in particular, for law enforcement.
Seems like that is going to ease some if the issues that surrounded PGP inception.
Agreed this would have it’s own challenges, in particular, for law enforcement.
Its high time that this legislation was enforced. Though with the current political climate, one wonders how effective it will truly be