A court rules that e-mails deserve the same 4th Amendment protections as telephone calls

"A federal appeals court has reaffirmed that principle by ruling that
e-mail messages stored by an Internet service provider deserve the same
privacy protections as the contents of telephone calls. In both
situations, the legal touchstone is the same: whether users of a
communications service have a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

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