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On 11/3/2011 8:47 AM, scottmarydavidsam at gmail.com wrote: > 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. This is a problem that can be easily solved by using end-to-end encryption. The capability is already built-in to every common email client. Bill, who encrypts all his email to prevent the FBI from finding out how boring his life is. -- Bill Horne 774-219-7638 (cell) 339-364-8487 (office)
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