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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/ecpa-turns-twenty-five/ Paraphrasing the article: According to the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the law still considers data that has been left on cloud servers for longer than six months to be "abandoned.". Law enforcement officers will continue to have access to citizens' stored communications that are more than six months old without a warrant as long as they assert that the content is relevant to a criminal investigation. The law also allows law enforcement to access all files stored in the cloud for longer than six months without a warrant, even though cloud storage services, like Dropbox, did not exist in 1986. A federal appeals court last year ruled that email stored in the cloud for longer than six months still requires a warrant for access, but the ruling applies only to Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.
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