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[ NNSquad ] Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says 

Cops Should Get Warrants to Read Your E-Mail, Attorney General Says

http://j.mp/YYIFKz (Wired)

    Attorney General Eric Holder became the White House's highest ranking
    official to support sweeping privacy protections requiring the
    government, for the first time, to get a probable-cause warrant to
    obtain e-mail and other content stored in the cloud.  "It is something
    that I think the Department will support," Holder testified before the
    House Judiciary Committee, when questioned about the Justice
    Department's position.  Last month, the Senate Judiciary Committee
    approved a package that nullifies a provision of federal law allowing
    the authorities to acquire a suspect's e-mail or other stored content
    from an internet service provider without showing probable cause that
    a crime was committed if the content is 180 days or older.

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NOTE: "Holder's thinking is a sea change to the agency's position two
years ago when the department testified that warrants should never be
required ... Still, not all President Barack Obama officials are
onboard.  Mary Jo White, the Securities and Exchange Commission's new
chair, wrote the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that ECPA
reform would hinder the government's "ability to protect investors."

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Uh huh.  Protect us, by spying on us.  Got it!

--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
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