Jared Polis on Gov't Snooping Your Old Emails: 'We don't even know the extent to which this power has been used or abused'
Did you know that the government can rifle through your opened emails without a warrant if they happen to be at least 180 days old? I had somehow forgotten that unhappy fact until yesterday, when Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colo.) came on The Independents to talk about his Email Privacy Act. Watch below:
A treasure trove of past Reason writing on the issue can be found here.
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So when is Greenwald going to publish his list?
I don't know, but he's a journalist, so not on Friday.
This will be an uneventful day for anyone named John Smith or Ming Wu. I'm gonna need a drink if my name shows up there.
I'll be extremely disappointed if Wary Hugecock isn't on there.
I have to give credit to blacks on their forethought here. We make up our little screen names here upon entering the Internet as adults in some attempt to be anonymous. Blacks do that as kids on the playground.
I will be disappointed if every member of this commentariat is not on there. Geez, what do we have to do?
Snowden's List
I think he said August.
Well, so we don't know the extent of the crime. How about we start prosecuting people and grabbing evidence? I mean, we know the crimes have occurred.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Why waste time and money on trials? Let's go straight to the executions.
Did you know that the government can rifle through your opened emails without a warrant...
Does that constitute a trigger warning?
Sort of OT: what's up with TrueCrypt?
oh jeez... there's a can of worms.
My money at the moment is on warrant canary/Lavabit situation.
On the plus side, the truecrypt audit project shirt should eventually show up!
Yup.
On the other hand, the core devs for TrueCrypt are apparently anonymous, so how did they get an NSL?
"Did you know that the government can rifle through your opened emails without a warrant if they happen to be at least 180 days old?"
Matt, everything they are telling us is a fucking lie. No matter what the rules are, they are looking at anything and everything at will. Assume everything you write is going to be read by some halfwitted douchebag drawing a government check.
I'll just leave this here.
https://mykolab.com/privacy