Good article.
Especially galling (and hypocritical) is that the government considers emails not as electronic bits, bytes, or ones and zeros, but in all ways equivalent to words written on paper, and subject to all laws that govern *your* uttering them -—
-— but, when it is convenient for them, considers the same electronic records as fundamentally different from your private papers and effects, and not subject to the rules that prevent *them* from warrantless search and seizures.
Then should be required to state whether they consider emails, etc., one way or the other.
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And good also when the police demands that you provide a password to your computer or smart phone. Just like they may get a warrant to search your locked safe, you do not have to provide the combination to make it easier for them.