A California state senator has come to the radical conclusion that email should be afforded the same privacy protections as traditional snail mail. How many people out there are unaware that their email correspondence is not secure against unconstitutional and illegal search and seizure? From
ABC Local:
If law enforcement wanted to read your letters or other paper
correspondence, they have to get a warrant. But in this age of
technology, you don't have the same protections. If your email has
already been opened or is more than 6 months old, law enforcement and
other government agencies can read them.
"The courts have said that the laws are very confusing and
have permitted the government to search your emails held by providers
without a warrant," said Francisco Loboco with the American Civil
Liberties Union.
While government investigators generally look
at email for evidence of criminal activity, that's not always the case.
Email privacy became a national debate after CIA Director David Petraeus
resigned over an extramarital affair. Privacy groups asked if the CIA
can't keep the FBI from reading Petraeus' private email, what
protections do ordinary people have?
State Sen. Mark Leno
(D-San Francisco) wants to clearly define the line in California.
Electronic communications should be no different than paper
communications: They're all private.
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