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No privacy in e-mail?

No privacy in e-mail?

The US government seems to be trying to say that there is nothing in the constitution which grants you a right to privacy in electronic communication. What do you think?

Comments

  1. GHoosdum
    GHoosdum I'm thinking you're just asking for anything you ever post, send, or look at on the internet to be intercepted and somehow used against you if you don't encrypt your activity, traffic, or writings.
  2. primesuspect
    primesuspect I don't even trust that encryption is useful.
  3. GHoosdum
    GHoosdum Good point. There's a reason the NSA stands behind certain encryption standards, and it's because they have the ability to break them.

    Most other folks, however, don't. ;)
  4. mas0n
    mas0n By this same standard there is nothing in the Constitution that grants government officials privacy in electronic communications.
    It's a double edged sword and they know it.

    The Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 should have us covered, but it gets trumped on a regular basis (i.e. Patriot Act)

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