Court cheers warrantless snooping of e-mail

sjb007 · 07-16-2008, 05:52 AM

Court cheers warrantless snooping of e-mail

Your e-mail is at risk again thanks to a recent ruling that backs no-notice, warrantless digs through e-mail accounts held by service providers.

A US appeals court issued a ruling (PDF) on Friday that overturned a previous decision by one of its panels preventing government searches of private email accounts without prior notice to the account holder. This ruling removed an injunction keeping the government from conducting any such searches in the court's jurisdiction, and, for the time being, put the brakes on a constitutional challenge to email searches under the Stored Communications Act where the subject did not have an opportunity to obtain judicial review prior to the search.

The one bright spot for those interested in preventing email searches without prior notice is that the court decided the matter on procedural grounds, which leaves the substantive issues open for a more favorable decision down the road.

Full news article here -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...l_warrantless/

07-16-2008, 05:52 AM	#1 (permalink)
sjb007 Analyst, Security Team Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Lincoln UK Posts: 649 OS: Mandriva 2008.1 My System	Court cheers warrantless snooping of e-mail Court cheers warrantless snooping of e-mail Your e-mail is at risk again thanks to a recent ruling that backs no-notice, warrantless digs through e-mail accounts held by service providers. A US appeals court issued a ruling (PDF) on Friday that overturned a previous decision by one of its panels preventing government searches of private email accounts without prior notice to the account holder. This ruling removed an injunction keeping the government from conducting any such searches in the court's jurisdiction, and, for the time being, put the brakes on a constitutional challenge to email searches under the Stored Communications Act where the subject did not have an opportunity to obtain judicial review prior to the search. The one bright spot for those interested in preventing email searches without prior notice is that the court decided the matter on procedural grounds, which leaves the substantive issues open for a more favorable decision down the road. Full news article here -> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07...l_warrantless/ __________________ *Patience is a Virtue* Proud Member of ASAP & UNITE If we have helped you then please consider donating Please note that we are all volunteers here, our charge is Zero All donations that are received go towards maintaining the forums