---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><span class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">WWWhatsup</b> <<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=joly@punkcast.com"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182229585_0">joly@punkcast.com</span></a>><br>Date: Jun 19, 2007 3:36 AM<br> Subject: [isoc-ny] EFF: Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches<br>To: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=isoc-ny@yahoogroups.com"><span id="lw_1182229585_1">isoc-ny@yahoogroups.com</span></a>, <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=discuss@isoc-ny.org"><span id="lw_1182229585_2">discuss@isoc-ny.org</span></a><br><br> </span> <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_3">Electronic
Frontier Foundation</span> Media Release<br> <br> For Immediate Release: Monday, June 18, 2007<br> <br> Contact:<br> <br> Kevin Bankston<br> Staff Attorney<br> <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_4">Electronic Frontier Foundation</span><br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="Compose?To=bankston%40eff.org"><span id="lw_1182229585_5">bankston@eff.org</span></a><br> +<span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_6">1 415 436-9333 x126</span><br> <br> Court Protects Email from Secret Government Searches<br> <br> Landmark Ruling Gives Email Same Constitutional Protections<br> as Phone Calls<br> <br> <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_7">San Francisco</span> - The government must have a search warrant<br> before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by<br>
email service providers, according to a landmark ruling<br> Monday in the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The court<br> found that email users have the same reasonable expectation<br> of privacy in their stored email as they do in their<br> telephone calls -- the first circuit court ever to make<br> that finding.<br> <br> Over the last 20 years, the government has routinely used<br> the federal Stored Communications Act (SCA) to secretly<br> obtain stored email from email service providers without a<br> warrant. But today's ruling -- closely following the<br> reasoning in an amicus brief filed the by the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_8">Electronic<br> Frontier Foundation</span> (EFF) and other civil liberties groups<br> -- found that the SCA violates the Fourth Amendment.<br> <br> "Email users expect that their Hotmail and Gmail inboxes<br> are just as private as their postal mail and
their<br> telephone calls," said EFF Staff Attorney Kevin Bankston.<br> "The government tried to get around this common-sense<br> conclusion, but the Constitution applies online as well as<br> offline, as the court correctly found. That means that the<br> government can't secretly seize your emails without a<br> warrant."<br> <br> Warshak v. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); cursor: pointer; height: 1em;" id="lw_1182229585_9">United States</span> was brought in the Southern<br> District of Ohio federal court by Steven Warshak to stop<br> the government's repeated secret searches and seizures of<br> his stored email using the SCA. The district court ruled<br> that the government cannot use the SCA to obtain stored<br> email without a warrant or prior notice to the email<br> account holder, but the government appealed that ruling to<br> the 6th Circuit. EFF served as an amicus in the case,<br> joined by the <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed
rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; height: 1em; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182229585_10">American Civil Liberties Union</span> and the Center<br> for Democracy & Technology. Law professors Susan Freiwald<br> and Patricia Bellia also submitted an amicus brief, and the<br> case was successfully argued at the 6th Circuit by<br> Warshak's counsel Martin Weinberg.<br> <br> For the full ruling in Warshak v. <span style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204); background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; cursor: pointer; height: 1em; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182229585_11">United States</span>:<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/"><span
id="lw_1182229585_12">http://eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/</span></a> 6th_circuit_decision_upholding_injunction.pdf<br> <br> For EFF's resources on the case, including its amicus brief:<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182229585_13">http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/</span></a><br> <br> For this release:<br> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005321"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" id="lw_1182229585_14">http://www.eff.org/news/archives/2007_06.php#005321</span></a><br> <br> About EFF<br> <br> The <span
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