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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. Re:Obama acomplishments by Giometrix · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm pretty sure real left diehards are cursing him too.

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  2. Re:Obama acomplishments by Shakrai · · Score: 2, Funny

    So, exactly how is BHO "head and shoulders above GWB"?

    Because...... change!

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  3. Re:Obama acomplishments by SETIGuy · · Score: 3, Funny

    they'd have made it a jailable offense to not have a job.

    Nah, they'd have to feed you in jail. It's cheaper to let the jobless fend for themselves on the streets. The 1% can't see those streets from where they live.

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