Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail

John Reinan writes in The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star-Tribune:

The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don't need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else's computer.

That would include all of the Big Four e-mail providers -- Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and Google -- that together hold e-mail accounts for 135 million Americans.

More here.

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