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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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Re: E-mail privacy to disappear? 2008-02-16
beenthere
The situation is much worse than all of you think. Our emails and our phone conversations are our thoughts. Assume that all emails and calls are monitored at all times. So now you know how was life under STAZI in East Germany, in Poland under martial law, or in other soviet block countries. But now ...

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