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Not that hard for authorities to get to your email
AP Blog ^ | 11-13

Posted on 11/13/2012 8:59:33 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs

WASHINGTON (AP) — Your emails are not nearly as private as you think.

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Under the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act, federal authorities need only a subpoena approved by a federal prosecutor — not a judge — to obtain electronic messages that are six months old or older. To get more recent communications, a warrant from a judge is required.

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"Technology has evolved in a way that makes the content of more communications available to law enforcement without judicial authorization, and at a very low level of suspicion," said Greg Nojeim, a senior counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology.

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Google, which operates the widely used Gmail service, complied with more than 90 percent of the nearly 12,300 requests it received in 2011 from the U.S. government for data about its users, according to figures from the company.

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KEYWORDS: feds; privacy; right; to

1 posted on 11/13/2012 8:59:42 AM PST by ExxonPatrolUs
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

What? government snooping on private communications? What? we can’t trust the government?
What a surprise.


2 posted on 11/13/2012 9:11:55 AM PST by I want the USA back
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

The government can eat me...unless they’re vegetarian.


3 posted on 11/13/2012 9:13:11 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

UH-O you mean they know i sent Aunt Tillie money for her gall bladder operation down in Costa Rica ?


4 posted on 11/13/2012 9:13:56 AM PST by Einherjar ( Asking only workman's wages I come looking for a job But I get no offers...)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Never put out on the Internet anything that you wouldn't want over-heard on your average busy street corner...

This has been true for as long as there has been an Internet.

5 posted on 11/13/2012 9:17:44 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

We used to have a homeless guy who roamed the streets of Downtown Pittsburgh all day wearing a sandwich board claiming that the government was intercepting his mail.

The other side said that they were controlling his mind through “secret radio”.

Little did we know...


6 posted on 11/13/2012 9:18:44 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

This is why I have taught my grandsons not to write anything in email, on the internet, or anything computer related unless they wouldn’t mind having it published for the world to see.


7 posted on 11/13/2012 9:21:50 AM PST by sockhead (Socialism: trickle up poverty.)
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
Your emails are not nearly as private as you think.

Actually they're just as private as I think. That's why any document that I don't want to be part of the public record I encrypt with GPG and send as an attachment. Let the feds have fun trying to break that. Sometimes my friends and I just encrypt web pages and send to each other just to throw off traffic analysis too.

8 posted on 11/13/2012 9:26:29 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: equaviator

Use carrier pigeons and let the feds chase those down. ;-)


9 posted on 11/13/2012 9:56:54 AM PST by Average Al
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To: ExxonPatrolUs
People have no idea how much electronic surveillance by the government is occurring every single day. There really is no good reason for people to NOT use encryption, (PGP, GPG, or something similar), other than the fact that people are lazy. There are plugins available for just about every major email client, and it can all be managed pretty much transparently. All websites could use SSL. In fact, if we took our privacy seriously, 95% of internet traffic could probably be encrypted, and all the various governments of the world would be SOL.

Another benefit of using public-key encryption for communications would be the dramatic decrease of spam.

10 posted on 11/13/2012 10:07:53 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Average Al

That’s what the drones are for.


11 posted on 11/13/2012 10:23:30 AM PST by Idaho_Cowboy (Ride for the Brand. Joshua 24:15)
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To: from occupied ga
Actually they're just as private as I think. That's why any document that I don't want to be part of the public record I encrypt with GPG and send as an attachment. Let the feds have fun trying to break that. Sometimes my friends and I just encrypt web pages and send to each other just to throw off traffic analysis too.

Excellent. It's also a good idea to salt your public key with plenty of keys that you'll  never use.

Way back when, I knew folks who would have key-signing parties. These are also excellent opportunities to swap grocery store 'loyalty' cards so as to make their databases as useless as possible.

12 posted on 11/13/2012 10:32:28 AM PST by zeugma (Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
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To: Idaho_Cowboy
People might just have to call each other. That technology is so passe they might not know how to track it anymore.;-)
13 posted on 11/13/2012 10:40:41 AM PST by Average Al
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To: ExxonPatrolUs

Don't kid yourself that Big Brother isn't snooping everywhere it wants with or without a piece of paper. Dale was right all along.

14 posted on 11/13/2012 10:49:54 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: bgill

Dale? Looks like Rusty Shackleford to me.


15 posted on 11/13/2012 10:55:51 AM PST by Hegewisch Dupa
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