{"id":4064,"date":"2010-04-14T23:06:14","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T00:44:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-14T23:06:14","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=4064","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment news–“Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yahoo, Feds Battle Over E-Mail Privacy<\/a> by David Kravets on Wired.com:<\/p>\n

Yahoo and federal prosecutors in Colorado are embroiled in a privacy battle that\u2019s testing whether the Constitution\u2019s warrant requirements apply to Americans\u2019 e-mail.<\/p>\n

The legal dust-up, unsealed late Tuesday, concerns a 1986 law that already allows the government to obtain a suspect\u2019s e-mail from an ISP or webmail provider without a probable-cause warrant, once it\u2019s 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\u2019s Fourth Amendment protections don\u2019t apply.<\/p>\n

Yahoo is challenging the government\u2019s position and defying a court order to turn over some customer e-mail to the feds. Google, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Center for Democracy & Technology and other groups late Tuesday told the federal judge presiding over the case that accessing e-mail under 180 days old requires a valid warrant under the Fourth Amendment, regardless of whether it has been read.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government says the Fourth Amendment does not protect these e-mails,\u201d Kevin Bankston, an EFF lawyer, said in a telephone interview Wednesday. \u201cWhat we\u2019re talking about is archives of our personal correspondence that they would need a warrant to get from your computer but not from the server.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On eff.org: EFF Backs Yahoo! to Protect User from Warrantless Email Search<\/a>. eff.org has the unsealed documents<\/a> in In Re Application of the United States of America for an Order Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 2703(d).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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