[privacy] Lawsuit Challenges Government's Right to Read Your e-Mail

[Dave Dittrich]

Fergie wrote:
> Someone may have already posted this, but I don't recall seeing
> it. If so, mea culpa.
> 
> Via The (Minneapolis-St. Paul) Star-Tribune.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail
> that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don't need a
> search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be
> stored in someone else's computer.

Doesn't that interpretation differ from the Supreme Court's decision
in the Steve Jackson Games case?

http://www.sjgames.com/SS/pdk-article.html

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