{"id":8020,"date":"2012-11-28T17:09:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:56:51","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T16:56:51","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8020","title":{"rendered":"NACDL Press Release: &#8220;Former Prosecutors and Judges Join Nation\u2019s Criminal Defense Bar to Support a Warrant Requirement for Law Enforcement Access to Email&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NACDL Press Release: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nacdl.org\/NewsReleases.aspx?id=25771\">Former Prosecutors and Judges Join Nation\u2019s Criminal Defense Bar to Support a Warrant Requirement for Law Enforcement Access to Email<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Washington, DC (November 27, 2012) \u2013 In a letter to Senators Patrick Leahy and Charles Grassley, the Chair and Ranking Member respectively of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, 30 former prosecutors and judges weighed in on November 21 in support of Senator Leahy\u2019s amendment to H.R. 2471. As explained in the letter, this amendment \u201cwould provide for a much needed judicial check on when the government can access our private digital information.\u201d Currently, and shockingly to many Americans, there is no warrant requirement for the government to access electronic communications stored by a third-party provider so long as the communication is more than 180 days old. This amendment simply puts electronic communications on the same constitutional footing as private communications sent via the U.S. Postal Service, for example.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>See HuffPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/harlan-protass\/email-tech-government-access_b_2204221.html\">The Government Can Read Your Emails, But a New Law Might Stop Them<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8020\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}