Email Considered Private

I actually didn't believe it when I read that Email up until recently wasn't considered "reasonably private". The courts have ruled though that email users should "reasonably expect" emails to be private and that the government needs a warrant to read them.

I should hope so! When I write to a person, I expect that that person, and only that person will read it. Maybe share it with a spouse or someone in the house, but not have the government snoop on it without a warrant. It's one thing if the government has reason to believe that a terrorist attack or a crime is about to be committed. It's quite another for the government to break the law as the FBI is shown to have done almost 1,000 times since 9/11 according to their own internal audit.

If the people who's privacy was shown to be invaded and they were innocent of any crime sued, the FBI would be broke in no time flat. Say an average settlement is $1 million, then roughly 1/2 of the people who's privacy was invaded were innocent of any crime, that's $500 million dollars in FBI screwups.

That's a lot of money, I don't care who you are.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com