Via Howard Bashman of How Appealing: Email privacy, on appeal: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit today issued a very lengthy decision on the latest round of appeals in the case captioned United States v. Warshak. I haven’t had time to wade through the whole opinion yet, so here’s the court’s summary…
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New York Court Scores Over Oregon In Recent Email Privacy Opinions
Jennifer Granick of the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides some legal analysis of recent court decisions involving stored email communications. Last week, two new district court opinions took opposing views on the question of whether the Fourth Amendment protects stored email. One of the cases easily adopted the prevailing view that the Constitution protects electronic communications,…
U.S. Court Weighs E-mail Privacy, Again
In a replay of a court decision from two years ago, civil liberties groups are once again trying to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that e-mail messages deserve the same privacy protection as telephone calls. On Wednesday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the ACLU of Ohio, and the Center for Democracy…