Good-guy Google vows to fight the government over access to your emails
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Article [url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/29/us-usa-privacy-google-idUSBRE90R17120130129[/url]
[quote]. . . will try to convince Congress to update a 1986 privacy protection law.[/quote]
[quote]The U.S. Electronic Communications Privacy Act, passed in the early days of the Internet, does not require government investigators to have a search warrant when requesting access to old emails and messages that are stored online, providing less protection for them than, say, letters stored in a desk drawer or even messages saved on a computer's hard drive.[/quote]
About time we get some rights
Better late than never?
For the record if I recall correctly Google, MS and Facebook all came with this stance recently.
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