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The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud.
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.
A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- and home-stored e-mail the same, and thus require a probable-cause warrant for access. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on that topic Tuesday.
The companies — including Google, AOL and AT&T — maintain that the law should be changed to reflect that consumers increasingly access their e-mail on servers, instead of downloading it to their hard drives, as a matter of course.
Originally posted by Jepic
Parasites! But I know a certain man that stands against all of this and the man is R _ _ P _ _ _ .
Who wants to play a game?
S&F'ed!edit on 8-4-2011 by Jepic because: had to edit information.edit on 8-4-2011 by Jepic because: had to edit some more information.edit on 8-4-2011 by Jepic because: forgot to point out my star and flag for this thread.
Originally posted by Jepic
reply to post by vermonster
You guys must have a higher IQ than Obama!?
R _ N P A _ L
Just two letters remaining! Will you risk it?
edit on 8-4-2011 by Jepic because: (no reason given)