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E-mail privacy to disappear?
Mark Rasch, 2007-11-02

On October 8, 2007, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati granted the government's request for a full-panel hearing in United States v. Warshak case centering on the right of privacy for stored electronic communications. At issue is whether the procedure whereby the government can subpoena stored copies of your e-mail -- similar to the way they could simply subpoena any physical mail sitting on your desk -- is unconstitutionally broad.

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Even if you have personally surrendered your expectation of privacy (to your employer, to your ISP), couldn't one argue that the employer/ISP (perhaps embodied as its leadership or shareholders?) has a reasonable expectation of privacy? If we assume "your" communications held on their servers are the property of the employer/ISP isn't a subpoena still required? Doesn't, of course, resolve the issue that even if this argument works "your" information could be subpoenaed and supplied without any notification to you.

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