The courts say your email is private

03:15 | Martin McKeay | Jun 20th, 2007 5:43pm |

Did you know that, since 1986 the government has had the legal right to read your email without getting a search warrant? That’s the year the Stored Communications Act was passed. A ruling this week by the 6th Circuit Court of appeals changed this, deciding that email holds the same expectation of privacy that telephone conversations do.

Tags: Stored Communications Act, expectation of privacy

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