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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by rayiner on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @05:43PM (#5528410)
> Privacy should not (and in more enlightened countries and legal systems it does not) mean "others are not technically able to see it".

This is really at the heart of the disagreement in this thread. Maybe this is what you think it should mean. But that's not what it means Constitutionally. The Constitution doesn't talk about privacy, it talks about unreasonable search and seizure. And the precedent is that if you've voluntarily handed the information to someone else, its not unreasonable for the government to get that information from them.

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Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant by coldtea on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @06:27PM (#5528629)
>But that's not what it means Constitutionally.

Sure, but I don't care much about the constitution. I care about what's fair and right. Constitutions can be changed and amended, especially if they were written 3 centuries ago.

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