cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42670639
There is a federal privacy law from the 1980s that give the cops a giant loophole to access your emails without a search warrant.
In this video, I’ll show you:
What law has that giant loophole How this loophole works How police and government agencies have exploited it Why Congress hasn’t closed it And most importantly — what you can do right now to protect your email privacySubscribe / @hamptonlawfirm
No real setting is discussed tho I presume that a savvy user could use pop3 and auto delete later (before the 180 day mark discussed in the video). Still an interesting video on the legal framework of searches around digital services.
TL;DR
E-mails stored on provider’s servers that are under 180 days old are considered private and require a judicial warrant to access, while e-mails older than 180 days are considered ‘abandoned’ and are available to be obtained with a subpoena written by any law enforcement agency.
The setting: Delete your e-mails before they’re over 180 days old.
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Yeah, my inbox is encrypted. They can get in with a warrant but they can’t read the data.
