Just Another Day Of WTF

WTF? Government Can Read Any Of Your Old Emails Without A Warrant?: "This is Wired, so I guess I believe them, but this... unbelievable. And scary.

And the government wants to retain this ability?

The Obama administration is urging Congress not to adopt legislation that would impose constitutional safeguards on Americans’ e-mail stored in the cloud.

'The cloud,' I understand, is just email stored on external serves. Like any free email account. Like gmail, or yahoo.

As the law stands now, the authorities may obtain cloud e-mail without a warrant if it is older than 180 days, thanks to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act adopted in 1986. At that time, e-mail left on a third-party server for six months was considered to be abandoned, and thus enjoyed less privacy protection. However, the law demands warrants for the authorities to seize e-mail from a person’s hard drive.
A coalition of internet service providers and other groups, known as Digital Due Process, has lobbied for an update to the law to treat both cloud- and home-stored e-mail the same, and thus require a probable-cause warrant for access. The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on that topic Tuesday.

That's insane. That's insane."

Just in case you didn't know. When O Duce said "transparent government", he muffled the "to" he said in between.