Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The Court says your email is private

["Jonathan King" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 6/21/07, Jerry Gamblin <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> 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.
>
> http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005321

This was an important ruling, but it should be noted that you do not
necessarily have this right. As a fed, for example, I have no such
right for email sent to/from government accounts and computers.

And then there are the glories of, e.g., the Presidential records Act,
but I can't get into that right now.

jking

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