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Is it not a slippery slope to wanting access to email and pretext for intercepting?
by datameta 6y ago
Is it not a slippery slope to wanting access to email and pretext for intercepting?
- wmf 6y agoThey already have access to email through subpoenas and warrants.
- Natsu 6y agoIn the USA, email that has been stored for longer than some (fairly short) period I don't remember offhand doesn't require a warrant to access. Just think about that for a while.
- kevinsundar 6y agoYep, after 180 days it only requires a subpoena (which does not require any court). See the Stored Communications Act.
- 082349872349872 6y agoIn my country, our constitution has been updated recently enough that the privacy article explicitly mentions telecommunications: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680273 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24680273
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> after 180 days it only requires a subpoena (which does not require any court) If stored on an American third-party server.
- megous 6y agoSolved by pop3 protocol.
- fulafel 6y agoIn the EU, the metadata retention directive killed most of this. Though there was a temporary lapse of insanity and some of it was annulled, but it's now making a comeback in various forms... https://radiobruxelleslibera.com/2020/10/09/data-retention-still-a-nightmare-for-eu-member-states/ https://radiobruxelleslibera.com/2020/10/09/data-retention-s...
- LatteLazy 6y agoThey already have that.