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

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Jonathan King wrote:

> 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.

I suppose an employer is not merely an ISP, and an employer may have the 
right to do whatever they please with an employee's email messages.  So an 
employer could turn over your email to the feds without violating a law.


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

How does that relate to the 6th Circuit Court decision?  It seems to have 
to do with the President's own records and not with other people's email:

http://www.google.com/search?q=presidential+records+act

I suppose the President's men ignore every court ruling except for the US 
Supreme Court.  So the new decision probably will not affect what the 
President does.

Mike

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