https://www.cdt.org/issue/wiretap-ecpa
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-introduces-benchmark-bill-to-update-key-digital-privacy-law#Summary
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-ElectronicCommunicationsPrivacyActAmendmentsAct.pdf
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Is your Email safe?
Do you want anyone reading your private emails without permission. Well, according to law enforcement agencies if your email is over 180 days old and stored on a "third parties server" they don't need a warrant to acquire it. So any of your old emails are now free for the government to use against you in any way they please. Our private electronic communication should be protected by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) but it isn't. The Truth is, it has been amended several times in the past 10 years to allow certain emails and cellphone data to be readily accessible to the US government. Meaning without a warrant we can be monitored through our phones and email traffic but luckily the ECPA is currently under reform. The final details of the reform are not quite yet finished but I hope to not have to worry what I write about in my personal emails.
https://www.cdt.org/issue/wiretap-ecpa
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-introduces-benchmark-bill-to-update-key-digital-privacy-law#Summary
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-ElectronicCommunicationsPrivacyActAmendmentsAct.pdf
https://www.cdt.org/issue/wiretap-ecpa
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/press/leahy-introduces-benchmark-bill-to-update-key-digital-privacy-law#Summary
http://www.leahy.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/BillText-ElectronicCommunicationsPrivacyActAmendmentsAct.pdf
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I think it is wrong for the law to use our ways of communication against us in the long run. People have rights to privacy and I think that what we talk about is no ones business. The law can't just take our freedom away from us little by little just because they have the overall power to. As a country you'd think we would have more of a say in what goes on with our personal messages.
I think they should have probable cause to look at our email. After all they need to have probable cause to search us or our house or car. I also think we need to be informed that they are doing so, just as in the other situations. After all when we write an email we do not intend it to be public information no matter how long ago we wrote it.
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