Obama administration seeks warrantless access to email headers.

[Stefan Kelm]

Perry,

>   The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic
>   communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the
>   law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government

Would that really make that much of a difference? In Germany,
at least, the so-called "judge's approval" often isn't worth
a penny, esp. wrt. phone surveillance. It simply is way too
easy to get such an approval, even afterwards.

Cheers,

	Stefan.

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