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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1057108" data-attributes="member: 38206">I agree. The more that comes out, the stranger this becomes.One point for all to consider besides all these connect the dots, even to Hulk Hogan...The FBI can get into the head of the CIA&#039;s GMAIL account, without the CIA even knowing.The friend.B.I.’s request to access the private Gmail account maintained by General&nbsp; Petraeus would have been only one of 34,614 accounts that governments as well as&nbsp; civil litigants around the world requested access to between January and June,&nbsp; 2012. The U.S. was by far the largest requester of user data (16,281 accounts),&nbsp; followed by India (3,467) and&nbsp;Brazil (2,640—many of them seeking to discover the&nbsp; identities of posters making critical comments about&nbsp;political candidates, which&nbsp; is illegal in Brazil).As Patrick Radden Keefe pointed out in a post yesterday, in the&nbsp; U.S. much of the legal authority for these requests rests on an antiquated&nbsp; federal statute, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act.&nbsp;Among other&nbsp; deficiencies, the law doesn’t extend the same level of protection to e-mail&nbsp; stored in the&nbsp;cloud—where most Gmail resides—as it does to e-mail stored on your&nbsp; hard drive. In the eyes of the&nbsp;law, e-mail on your hard drive gets the same&nbsp; level of protection as documents in your personal&nbsp;filing cabinet—the government&nbsp; needs a search warrant to access it.&nbsp;But e-mail stored in the cloud is&nbsp; equivalent to documents in a public warehouse: the government can obtain them with a simple subpoena; no court procedure is required.Read more: <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/petraeus-and-the-cloud.html#ixzz2Cf86Tzcm" target="_blank">Petraeus and the Cloud: Who Can Read Your Gmail? : The New Yorker</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="texan, post: 1057108, member: 38206"] [B]I agree. The more that comes out, the stranger this becomes. One point for all to consider besides all these connect the dots, even to Hulk Hogan... The FBI can get into the head of the CIA's GMAIL account, without the CIA even knowing. The friend.B.I.’s request to access the private Gmail account maintained by General Petraeus would have been only one of 34,614 accounts that governments as well as civil litigants around the world requested access to between January and June, 2012. [U]The U.S. was by far the largest requester of user data [/U](16,281 accounts), followed by India (3,467) and Brazil (2,640—many of them seeking to discover the identities of posters making critical comments about political candidates, which is illegal in Brazil). As Patrick Radden Keefe pointed out in a post yesterday, in the U.S. much of the legal authority for these requests rests on an antiquated federal statute, the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Among other deficiencies, the law doesn’t extend the same level of protection to e-mail stored in the cloud—where most Gmail resides—as it does to e-mail stored on your hard drive. In the eyes of the law, e-mail on your hard drive gets the same level of protection as documents in your personal filing cabinet—the government needs a search warrant to access it. But e-mail stored in the cloud is equivalent to documents in a public warehouse: the government can obtain them with a simple subpoena; no [COLOR=#800000]court procedure is required.[/COLOR] Read more: [URL="http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/11/petraeus-and-the-cloud.html#ixzz2Cf86Tzcm"]Petraeus and the Cloud: Who Can Read Your Gmail? : The New Yorker[/URL] [/B] [/QUOTE]

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