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Fourth Amendment news--"Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy"

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy by David Kravets on Wired.com: Yahoo and federal prosecutors in Colorado are embroiled in a privacy battle that’s testing whether the Constitution’s warrant requirements apply to Americans’ e-mail. The legal dust-up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect’s e-mail from an ISP or webmail provider without a probable-cause warrant, once it’s been stored for 180 days or more. The government now contends it can get e-mail under 180-days old if that e-mail has been read by the owner, and the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment protections don’t apply. Yahoo is challenging the government’s position and defying a court order to turn over some customer e-mail to the feds...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 15, 2010 (boomark / email).