The US government must be smoking some good stuff to think that people don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they send out emails over their personal email accounts.
For example, when I send an email to a reader, I reasonably expect that the reader, and ONLY the reader will read my email. Now, that person may share the email with another, but that is to be expected. For someone to suggest otherwise, is ludicrous.
Say you are driving down the street and you are on your cell phone talking with someone. There is equipment that may be made or purchased that allows you to hear what a person is saying by measuring the vibrations of the windows.
The same holds true with email. You need a piece of equipment to read the email, thus, privacy is reasonably expected. If emails were blasted over loudspeakers or across reader boards, then since no equipment is necessary, an expectation of privacy isn't there.
If the US government is saying that they can listen in on email conversations because there is no expectation of privacy, I fully expect to be able to read George Bush's emails and anyone else within the Federal Government.
Privacy is a two way street in the US. If you tell me I have no reasonable expectation, then YOU have no reasonable expectation.
I would LOVE to hear the US government's position on that.
Travis
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