Another E-mail Privacy Case November 4, 2009
The EFF has a great post up comparing the Oregon case we talked about on this week’s podcast with a New York case.
In the New York case the government conceeded that the e-mails were protected by the Fourth Amendment (something that wasn’t quite at issue in the Oregon case). There, the judge found the warrant, which allowed the police to get access to all the defendant’s e-mails was overbroad and invalid. But, the judge never decided if the Fourth Amendment protects e-mails.
It’s an interesting read, but I think we disagree with the EFF’s characterization of the Oregon case, and whether it actually decided that e-mails were unprotected by the Fourth Amendment.
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