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Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches

EFF press release: “The government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers, according to a landmark ruling Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their telephone calls — the first circuit court ever to make that finding.”

  • the full ruling in Warshak v. United States. The decision is also available from court, here.
  • EFF’s resources on the case, including its amicus brief
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