[FYI] You've Got Mail (and Court Says Others Can Read It)

[Jan Meyer <jan@synflood.in-berlin.de>]

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http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/06/technology/06net.html


[...]
Last week a federal appeals court in Boston ruled that federal wiretap laws
do not apply to e-mail messages if they are stored, even for a millisecond,
on the computers of the Internet providers that process them - meaning that
it can be legal for the government or others to read such messages without a
court order.

The ruling was a surprise to many people, because in 1986 Congress
specifically amended the wiretap laws to incorporate new technologies like
e-mail. Some argue that the ruling's implications could affect emerging
applications like Internet-based phone calls and Gmail, Google's new e-mail
service, which shows advertising based on the content of a subscriber's
e-mail messages.
[...]




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