{"id":8738,"date":"2013-05-10T15:03:17","date_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:02:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-10T15:02:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8738","title":{"rendered":"ACLU: VIDEO: Is Law Enforcement Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ACLU: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/technology-and-liberty-national-security\/video-law-enforcement-reading-your-email-without\">VIDEO: Is Law Enforcement Reading Your Email Without a Warrant?<\/a> by Noa Yachot:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The FBI doesn&#8217;t think it needs a warrant to read emails and other electronic communications \u2013 despite the fact that a federal court has ruled that doing so violates the Fourth Amendment. Ben Wizner appeared today on Democracy Now! to discuss this and other ACLU revelations regarding government surveillances practices.<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU this week released documents that paint a disturbing picture of the authority the government claims to access a wide range of our communications \u2013 from emails to Facebook messages and much more. These latest developments reinforce what has long been clear: it is well past time to modernize ECPA, the egregiously outdated law that governs our electronic privacy but hasn&#8217;t been updated since 1986, before the World Wide Web was even invented. As Wizner said: &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fourthamendment.com\/blog\/\">Back to blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8738\">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-8738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738","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=8738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}