Holder Should Demand Feds Get a Warrant to Read Our E-mail http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Attorney General Eric Holder is on record the Department of Justice supports legislation that generally would require the government to get a probable-cause warrant to read your e-mail. That we're having this discussion is because federal law, dating to the President Ronald Reagan administration, allows the cops to access your e-mail without a warrant if it's been stored in the cloud at least six months. For years, Congress has been debating changing the law that we'd expect to be the norm in some third-world, despotic nation. Now its time for the United States, and Holder in particular, to show the world, and the American public, that he means what he says. It's time for the Justice Department to begin honoring the Fourth Amendment and start getting a warrant to access the public's e-mail and other stored content, civil rights groups say.



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