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[ NNSquad ] Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds
Reading someone's Gmail doesn't violate federal statute, court finds http://j.mp/SPkYyK (ars technica) This new decision creates a split with existing case law (Theofel v. Farey-Jones) as decided in a 2004 case decided by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. That decision found that an e-mail message that was received, read, and left on a server (rather than being deleted) did constitute storage "for purposes of backup protection," and therefore, was also defined as being kept in "electronic storage." Legal scholars point this judicial split as to yet another reason why the Supreme Court (and/or Congress) should take up the issue of the Stored Communications Act. "This [South Carolina] decision is more evidence of how intractable and inconsistent our statutory electronic surveillance regime has become," Woodrow Hertzog, a professor at the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University, told Ars. - - - Fixing this sorry state of affairs is a major part of what the Digital Due Process coalition is all about. - http://j.mp/QgIvWT (DDP) --Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Founder: - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info - Data Wisdom Explorers League: http://www.dwel.org - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com Google+: http://vortex.com/g+lauren / Twitter: http://vortex.com/t-lauren Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com _______________________________________________ nnsquad mailing list http://lists.nnsquad.org/mailman/listinfo/nnsquad