International Business - ibtimes - Warrants? We don’t need no stinking warrants. Apparently the FBI doesn’t think it’s legally required to have a warrant to search your emails, Facebook messages and any other electronic communications.
Documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the ACLU suggest that the U.S. Department of Justice is flouting a 2010 federal appeals court ruling that declared warrant less access to email a violation of the Fourth Amendment. The FBI is reportedly considering any mail left beyond six months on a third party server - yahoo, gmail, Facebook, etc - is exempt from the ruling.
So if you tell someone something that is personal and private, it may not be private. Be careful not to tell aunt Bernice that the party you threw over the weekend, was a bomb.
But don’t feel alone. Newsmax reporter Carl Bernstein call the Department of Justice securing telephone records of Associated Press reporters a "nuclear event." Actually, I’m kind of happy about that one. I have a real mean streak when it comes to the media.
Remember, you may not be interested in government or politics, but they are interested in you.
If they start reading this blog, they will have hit the bottom of the barrell.
PMO
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