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Expectation of Privacy Extended to Email
An anonymous reader writes "In a 6th circuit court decision [PDF] today 4th amendment expectation of privacy rights were extended to email. 'The ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio upholds a lower court ruling that placed a temporary injunction on e-mail searches in a fraud investigation against Steven Warshak, who runs a supplements company best known for a male enhancement product called Enzyte. Warshak hawks Enzyte using "Smiling Bob" ads that have gained some notoriety.'"
Now we don't have to encrypt our emails!
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Who initiated the fraud investigation? Pfizer?
Everyone deserves the same rights and treatment under the law.
I agree.
Well, except for rich people. And pharmaceutical companies that spend more on advertising than research. AFAIK, they're first against the wall.
But yeah, equal treatment for everyone else.
Apology to Ubuntu forum.
The wikipedia article on Enzyte falls under the category: sex stubs :)
You can't talk about Wikipedia's flaws on Wikipedia
Robert Anton Wilson wrote a short little thing in his Schoedinger's Cat trilogy about stenciling "Cocaine Importers, LTD" or something similar on the side of a delivery van and seeing how the cops respond. It was amusing.
*sigh* back to work...
Uh, I dunno where you buy your weapons, but if you paid $20k for an M16, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to discuss with you.
Ignorance is curable, stupid is forever.
Well, you can go ahead and try to find $20'000 for an M16 (which is not fully automatic by the way, and only fires 3-round bursts, unless modified or the A1 version, which nobody would ever want anyway).
While you collect the $20'000 for the M16, I can get 10 AK-74s and 50kg of ammo... and still have some money left over.
See - you don't need money, just some common sense.
So, I guess it won't be such a good idea to wear my i read your e-mail T-shirt at work anymore...
"I bow to no man" - Riddick
I never understood how Enzyte ever got that big
Apparently they use their own product ...
Soylent Green is peoplicious!
"Gag" gift...
I never understood how Enzyte ever got that big. How could you look at the TV ad and not conclude it was anything but a charade?
A package of Enzyte makes one hell of a gag gift at the office Christmas party where all the gifts are anonymous and everybody has to select one at random from under the tree, or steal one from a co-worker that's already opened theirs.
One difference might be that people sort of think of email more like a letter than a postcard. A court could find that email has protections similar to a letter.
But how can this situation be likened to a car? Car analogies are always the best way to explain complicated things!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.