A recent court decision has granted e-mail the same 4th Amendment protection as your home and your phone calls.<\/p>\n
From Bruce Schneier’s Blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n This is a great piece of news in the U.S. For the first time, e-mail has<\/a> been<\/a> granted<\/a> the same constitutional protections as telephone calls and personal papers: the police need a warrant to get at it. Now it’s only a circuit court decision<\/a> — the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio — it’s pretty narrowly defined based on the attributes of the e-mail system, and it has a good chance of being overturned<\/a> by the Supreme Court…but it’s still great news.<\/p>\n The way to think of the warrant system is as a security device. The police still have the ability to get access to e-mail in order to investigate a crime. But in order to prevent abuse, they have to convince a neutral third party — a judge — that accessing someone’s e-mail is necessary to investigate that crime. That judge, at least in theory, protects our interests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n We can only hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A recent court decision has granted e-mail the same 4th Amendment protection as your home and your phone calls. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[88,89,385,67,26],"class_list":["post-904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-constitution","tag-law","tag-politics","tag-privacy","tag-security","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-eA","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":809,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2006\/10\/28\/taxes\/","url_meta":{"origin":904,"position":0},"title":"Taxes","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 28, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"You might want to watch this - It's about taxes, specifically the United States Federal Income Tax - and how it may not be legitimate. 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