{"id":8725,"date":"2013-05-08T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:37:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T13:37:56","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8725","title":{"rendered":"CNET: DOJ: We don&#8217;t need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNET: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13578_3-57583395-38\/doj-we-dont-need-warrants-for-e-mail-facebook-chats\/\">DOJ: We don&#8217;t need warrants for e-mail, Facebook chats<\/a> by Declan McCullagh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An FBI investigation manual updated last year, obtained by the ACLU, says it&#8217;s possible to warrantlessly obtain Americans&#8217; e-mail &#8220;without running afoul&#8221; of the Fourth Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI believe they don&#8217;t need a search warrant to review Americans&#8217; e-mails, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and other private files, internal documents reveal.<\/p>\n<p>Government documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union and provided to CNET show a split over electronic privacy rights within the Obama administration, with Justice Department prosecutors and investigators privately insisting they&#8217;re not legally required to obtain search warrants for e-mail. The IRS, on the other hand, publicly said last month that it would abandon a controversial policy that claimed it could get warrantless access to e-mail correspondence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8725\">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-8725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725","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=8725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}