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Obama Administration Wants Your Old Email
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.
After watching the Retardicans the past few months, I'm really glad he is in office. If it were McCain right now we'd already be rounding Arabs up into concentration camps (whoops "internment camps"), the uber-rich would have had their taxes entirely removed, and they'd have made it a jailable offense to not have a job.
As it is, we still have to deal with Paul Ryan's insane "budget plan" which consists of mainly more tax breaks to his billionaire masters paid for by switching grandma from Ramen to Alpo.