Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant
AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant
Government can already get ALL your celltower locations without a warrant
AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant
Assuming you meant directly from the telcos and not from the data broker loopholes - in which case pretty much anyone should be able to do that. Emails and texts they still need a warrant for.
Source for this? Was it big news? First I've heard of it.
Why do you think she had a personally owned email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party?
Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is simply considered "abandoned" under that law and can be read without any judicial oversight, no warrant needed. Major services even have portals for law enforcement to just browse away
Congress purposely never updates the law, it's 40 years out of date
Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act which also had problems but which didn't change this specific legal norm.
Why do you think she had a personal email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party?
Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...
Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is cleverly considered "abandoned" under that law and can be read without any judicial oversight, no warrant needed. Major services even have portals for law enforcement to just browse away
Congress purposely never updates the law, it's 40 years out of date despite people having years of email, SMS, DMs in their accounts as typical behavior