Email gets fourth amendment protection again

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Boing Boing: Email gets fourth amendment protection again

In a tremendous victory for privacy rights, the US 6th circuit court has restored the power of 4th amendment protection to emails stored on a remote host like an ISP or Webmail, striking down sections of the Stored Communications Act which have been routinely used to grab emails without a warrant.

Computing News — laura

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