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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We’ve Come a Long Way

January 30th, 2010

By Larry Ennis How many reading this will remember the old crank telephones that hung on the wall? I remember the crank phone my Grandpa Cole had at his farm in Lamar County, Alabama. Cole was not the telephone type, and he was tight with his money to boot. The old man was pretty well-off […]

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Tags: computer, Facebook, MySpace, technology, telephone, Twitter
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