Opinion Forum

Does the Fourth Amendment Apply to Emails?

December 21st, 2010

By Dan Miller Yes, says the Sixth Circuit. But the consequences remain murky. In U.S. v. Warshak, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit held that email correspondence enjoys substantially the same expectations of privacy and therefore of Fourth Amendment protections as do snail mail and telephone conversations. Warshak was a criminal […]

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Tags: 4th Amendment, court decision, e-mail, mail, privacy, SCA, telephone
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Straight Pride

November 15th, 2010

By Nancy Morgan As more and more Americans identify themselves through their sexual orientation, I’d like to weigh in on the side of heterosexuality. There, I said it. I’m straight. Sexually speaking, this means that I don’t sleep with members of my own sex. Of course, who I sleep with is no-one’s business. Unless I’m […]

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Tags: gay, heterosexual, homophobia, homosexual, privacy, sexuality, straight
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Body Scanners Violate Islam

March 7th, 2010

By Brianna Aubin In one of the most ironic pieces of news to lately cross my computer screen, a group of Muslim-American scholars has ruled against the use of body scanners to screen Muslims because of modesty concerns. Now, I like the idea of body scanners about as much as anyone could reasonably be expected to (not […]

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Tags: Islam, modesty, Muslim, privacy, scanner, terrorism, terrorists
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