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Texas Poised To Pass Unprecedented Email Privacy Bill
An anonymous reader writes "A bill has reached the desk of Texas Governor Rick Perry that would give stronger privacy protections to email accounts than exist in any other state. If Perry signs it (or simply declines to veto it before June 16th), the legislation would force law enforcement agencies to obtain a warrant before reading somebody's email, even if the email has been sitting on the server for a long time. 'As we've noted many times before, there are no such provisions in federal law once the e-mail has been opened or if it has been sitting in an inbox, unopened, for 180 days. In March 2013, the Department of Justice acknowledged in a Congressional hearing that this distinction no longer makes sense and the DOJ would support revisions to ECPA.' This bill passed the state legislature unanimously. The article points out that the legislation won't protect from federal investigations, but it will set a precedent that the U.S. Congress will surely notice. An attorney with the EFF said, 'It's significant as proof that privacy reform is not only needed, but also politically-feasible with broad bipartisan support. And hopefully that will impact federal ECPA reform efforts by getting people on both of sides of the political aisle to work together to make meaningful electronic privacy reform a reality. The more states that pass similar legislation, the more pressure it will put on Congress to keep up with the changing legal landscape.'"
Disagreeing with the above AC is one thing. Disagreeing with established fact and reality is quite another. It is not acceptable to teach things in school that are demonstrably false.
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Furthermorre, you rail against Texas but make no mention of California's murder of unborn children. The criminals made a choice to commit their crime - in horrific cases the State of Texas believes that capital punishment is appropriate. You want to foist your values on them, which is why you object. However, in the case of a human child/embryo it has no choice and no voice - yet perhaps you are happy for *millions* of murders to be carried out just so the mother can continue her lustful lifestyle? Actually, I'm pro-choice, but it cannot be denied that is also legitimizes murder of defenceless human beings - the difference is I don't judge the Texans for their decision on how they deal with the criminals. That's the problem with young leftists, they believe in all diversities except the one that really matters - diversity of opinion. Learn to accept that perhaps the Texan's opinions and choices are as valid as yours - to argue for enforcing your agenda on them shows the typical totalitarian streak of the political Left.