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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by linschn on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:19PM (#5526536)
By contrast, in France for example, secrecy of correspondence is the default. It has been explicitely extended in 2004 to e-mail, but the law as it was after a change in 1988 certainly already covered that. Tampering with e-mail is thus punished the same way as tampering with a physical letter. Being an agent of the government constitutes aggravating circumstances.

Circumventing those protections requires the intervention of an independent (as in independent from the executive) judge.

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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by r00fus on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:44PM (#5527154)
Note to citizens of the USA: This is what you get when a government is afraid of it's citizens. Freedom fries, indeed. Guns not needed.
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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by rsync on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @03:55PM (#5527668)
No, this is a good point. History suggests that the government of france should absolutely be afraid of french citizens.
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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by mcguire on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @04:30PM (#5527937)
To (mis-) quote Rick Steves, the city of Paris repaved its streets, removing the historic cobbles, to prevent the citizens from using the streets...as weapons.

Non-apathetic citizenry probably trumps well-armed citizenry.

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