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  • IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant (Communism is here!)

    04/10/2013 2:29:12 PM PDT · by tobyhill · 100 replies
    cnet ^ | 4/10/2013 | by Declan McCullagh
    The Internal Revenue Service doesn't believe it needs a search warrant to read your e-mail. Newly disclosed documents prepared by IRS lawyers says that Americans enjoy "generally no privacy" in their e-mail, Facebook chats, Twitter direct messages, and similar online communications -- meaning that they can be perused without obtaining a search warrant signed by a judge. That places the IRS at odds with a growing sentiment among many judges and legislators who believe that Americans' e-mail messages should be protected from warrantless search and seizure. They say e-mail should be protected by the same Fourth Amendment privacy standards that...