EFF challenges government’s “back door wiretap”
Electronic Frontier Foundation
06/11/09
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups filed an amicus brief in Warshak v. United States urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to hold that the government’s seizure of email without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment and federal privacy statutes, as well as the Justice Department’s own surveillance manual. ‘During its criminal investigation, the Department of Justice illegally ordered defendant Stephen Warshak’s email provider to prospectively ‘preserve’ copies of his future emails, which the government later obtained using a subpoena and a non-probable cause court order’...
http://www.eff.org/press/releases/2009/06
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretap
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Electronic+Frontier+Foundation
06/11/09
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and other civil liberties groups filed an amicus brief in Warshak v. United States urging the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to hold that the government’s seizure of email without a warrant violated the Fourth Amendment and federal privacy statutes, as well as the Justice Department’s own surveillance manual. ‘During its criminal investigation, the Department of Justice illegally ordered defendant Stephen Warshak’s email provider to prospectively ‘preserve’ copies of his future emails, which the government later obtained using a subpoena and a non-probable cause court order’...
http://www.eff.org/press/releases/2009/06
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wiretap
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=warrant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=surveillance
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=DoJ
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Electronic+Frontier+Foundation
rudkla - 15. Jun, 09:37
