Court rules that your e-mail is private
It’s probably safe to say that the majority of people type e-mails with reckless abandon and rarely think about how the government would feel if they read them. Of course, it is probably also safe to say that most of us don’t write anything they’d want to read anyway. In a landmark decision, fought for by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the US 6th District Court ruled that a warrant is now required for the government to snoop through your e-mails. From EFF Chairman, Brad Templeton: "The court agreed with an amicus brief filed by EFF attorney Kevin Bankston that people did have a reasonable expectation of privacy on their emails even when not stored on their home systems. This decision will make life far easier for users, and for operators of hosted email services like Google’s Gmail." Go get ‘em tiger!
Good now its just a matter of the government actually listening to the law
@eJay of course they will we already know that they will never go against their own laws. I want to see is what excuse or bypass law they come up with to have people emails and more.
@ victor – They have one its called the PATRIOT act :/
@eJay – even though the Patriot Act exists and in order for the “act” to be applied, the agency conducting the research will have to get a warrant before they can snoop around emails.
no they just call u a terrorist and no warrant