Sunday, July 8, 2007

You Should Know You Are Losing Privacy

The Ninth US Circuit Court Of Appeals has recently ruled that you should know that you are giving up your privacy when you use the Internet and have rules that Federal Agents do not need a search warrant in order to record the web site addresses you visit and to record the email header information for any e-mails you send.

So far, they are not allowed to read the content of the pages you visit and they are not allowed to read the body of the e-mail. But everything else is fair game. So, as I understand the ruling. It's fair for them to record the subject line of your e-mails, the email addresses on the from and to lines, and all of the other information in the headers of the mail

Because they do not need a search warrant. They do not have show that the data they collect is likely to be evidence used in a crime. They can just record it for whatever reason they want to, keep it for however long they want to, and use it for whatever purposes they want to.

Sleep well.

1 comments:

Miranda said...

Therefore, all our email headers should be labeled "grandma's cake recipe" or something similar.

fucktards.