> Until the recent revelations about the NSA, we also believed (perhaps naively) that the U.S. had data protection laws that prohibited spying on citizens without a warrant.
If people believed that email that a person didn't host themselves was protected, it was only because they were lazy and didn't so much as Google the laws in question.
The reason we keep telling you that the NSA behavior is probably legal isn't because we want it to be legal, it's because we want you to stop living in a fantasyland ;). Look at ECPA for instance, it's been around since 1986. CALEA has been around since 1994.
If people believed that email that a person didn't host themselves was protected, it was only because they were lazy and didn't so much as Google the laws in question.
The reason we keep telling you that the NSA behavior is probably legal isn't because we want it to be legal, it's because we want you to stop living in a fantasyland ;). Look at ECPA for instance, it's been around since 1986. CALEA has been around since 1994.