Appellate court holds email privacy protected by Fourth Amendment

Per the Electronic Frontier Foundation:

In a landmark decision issued today in the criminal appeal of U.S. v. Warshak, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government must have a search warrant before it can secretly seize and search emails stored by email service providers. Closely tracking arguments made by EFF in its amicus brief, the court found that email users have the same reasonable expectation of privacy in their stored email as they do in their phone calls and postal mail.

A mere pebble on the tracks of that national-security train I mentioned earlier today, but ehh, it's better than nothing, I suppose.

Like the ACLU, the EFF fights the good fight even when the good fight is unpopular. Also like the ACLU, the EFF has no idea of how to rouse public opinion to its causes.