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Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email

Posted by Unknown on from the good-people-have-nothing-to-hide dept.

Nemesisghost wrote to us with a story about attempts to reform the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Under the act, messages left on a server are considered abandoned after six months and are trivially subpoenaed by law enforcement. A group of ISPs is lobbying to extend the protections afforded to locally stored messages to messages stored on third party servers, but the Obama administration is urging Congress not to reform the law.

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  1. Thinking one move ahead... by amightywind · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Obama is indeed a pathetic joke. Let us bomb the terrorist Gaddafi so the terrorists take over the Libya! What an inspiration.

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    an ill wind that blows no good
  2. Those who don't learn from history... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. The last time we elected a Republican house with a Democratic President the Republicans shut down the government.

    Then we tried a Republican legislature with a Republican President. They took the country from a surplus to a deficit with tax givaways to the rich. They let their industry buddies poison the air and water. They drove the economy of a cliff. They were a national disaster.

    After electing another Republican house majority we should have expected the government to be shut down.

    Unfortunately people don't learn from history and the Republican party is again shutting down the government.

    Please stop voting Republican. America deserves better.