Email Privacy

A couple of email-privacy posts I've run across recently.

Juan Cole on Wisconsin's attempt to get at professor's email. [Professor's Email] and Wired on everyone's email [Everyone's Email]

As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986. At that time, e-mail left on a third-party server for six months was considered to be abandoned, and thus enjoyed less privacy protection. However, the law demands warrants for the authorities to seize e-mail from a person’s hard drive.

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