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The Privacy of Email

Posted by samzenpus on from the stop-reading-that dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes "A U.S. appeals court in Ohio has ruled that e-mail messages stored on Internet servers are protected by the Constitution as are telephone conversations and that a federal law permitting warrantless secret searches of e-mail violates the Fourth Amendment. 'The Stored Communications Act is very important,' former federal prosecutor and counter-terrorism specialist Andrew McCarthy told United Press International. But the future of the law now hangs in the balance."

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  1. Protected by the Constitution? by Krojack · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm guessing this is for the valid legal citizens and green card holders only. Illegals should not be protected by the Constitution.