Obama administration seeks warrantless access to email headers.

Perry E. Metzger perry at piermont.com
Fri Jul 30 09:58:08 EDT 2010


On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:38:44 +0200 Stefan Kelm <skelm at bfk.de> wrote:
> 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.

It is significantly harder here in the US. Equally importantly, it is
much simpler to determine what warrants were issued after the fact.

However, lets say you were right and there was no significant
impediment. It would be disturbing to see even the small protections
currently afforded removed without any apparent benefit to the
removal.

Perry
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Perry E. Metzger		perry at piermont.com

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