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If the hackers dont get your email, the government might.
The Senate has sent legislation to President Obama that strips out an amendment that would have forced law enforcement to obtain warrants before reading the emails of U.S. citizens stored in the cloud.
The new measure is a tweak to the Video Privacy Protection Act, which outlaws the disclosure of video-rental information unless given consent by customers. The act was adopted in 1988 after failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork's rental history was leaked to the Washington City Paper.
With President Obama's signature, the law would continue current rules that let the government collect emails and other cloud data that has been stored on a third-party server for six months or more.
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http://www.slate.com/blogs/trending/2012/12/26/warrantless_email_spying_government_doesn_t_need_a_warrant_to_read_conversations.html
HiPointDem
(20,729 posts)SomethingFishy
(4,876 posts)Has anyone read the Patriot Act? Nope! We're not allowed. The "real" Patriot Act is classified.
http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/senator-the-real-patriot-act-is-classified/10286
"Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) said that, while under official secrecy legislation he could not disclose the full classified interpretations; the government is operating on a far wider range of what is written in law.
"Were getting to a gap between what the public thinks the law says and what the American government secretly thinks the law says," Wyden said."
Why? Because it takes away all of your privacy rights. It is now easy for the government to access all your information from what you buy for groceries to when and where you pay your bills. From who you are calling and e-mailing to who is calling and e-mailing you. However bad you think it is.. it's worse.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)now the government will think I have a small penis.
MotherPetrie
(3,145 posts)RC
(25,592 posts)Vincardog
(20,234 posts)Hell if you fart in public the Government probably can tell what you had for lunch.