Expectation of Privacy Extended to Email

An anonymous reader writes "In a 6th circuit court decision [PDF] today 4th amendment expectation of privacy rights were extended to email. 'The ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Ohio upholds a lower court ruling that placed a temporary injunction on e-mail searches in a fraud investigation against Steven Warshak, who runs a supplements company best known for a male enhancement product called Enzyte. Warshak hawks Enzyte using "Smiling Bob" ads that have gained some notoriety.'"

Great!

[Colin Smith]

Now we don't have to encrypt our emails!

 

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

Who initiated the fraud investigation? Pfizer?

Re:too bad

[UbuntuDupe]

Everyone deserves the same rights and treatment under the law.

I agree.

Well, except for rich people. And pharmaceutical companies that spend more on advertising than research. AFAIK, they're first against the wall.

But yeah, equal treatment for everyone else.

Re:wording

[Stanistani]

The wikipedia article on Enzyte falls under the category: sex stubs :)

Re:How is email privacy currently violated?

[Dan Ost]

Robert Anton Wilson wrote a short little thing in his Schoedinger's Cat trilogy about stenciling "Cocaine Importers, LTD" or something similar on the side of a delivery van and seeing how the cops respond. It was amusing.

Re:too bad

[TFGeditor]

Uh, I dunno where you buy your weapons, but if you paid $20k for an M16, I have some ocean front property in Arizona I'd like to discuss with you.

Re:too bad

[TheMeuge]

Well, you can go ahead and try to find $20'000 for an M16 (which is not fully automatic by the way, and only fires 3-round bursts, unless modified or the A1 version, which nobody would ever want anyway).

While you collect the $20'000 for the M16, I can get 10 AK-74s and 50kg of ammo... and still have some money left over.

See - you don't need money, just some common sense.

My T-shirt

[Nonillion]

So, I guess it won't be such a good idea to wear my i read your e-mail T-shirt at work anymore...

Re:Enzyte Why?

[OldManAndTheC++]

I never understood how Enzyte ever got that big

Apparently they use their own product ...

Re:Well...

[MontyApollo]

"Gag" gift...

Gag gift at the office Christmas party.

[Anonymous Coward]

I never understood how Enzyte ever got that big. How could you look at the TV ad and not conclude it was anything but a charade?

A package of Enzyte makes one hell of a gag gift at the office Christmas party where all the gifts are anonymous and everybody has to select one at random from under the tree, or steal one from a co-worker that's already opened theirs.

Re:too bad

[mcrbids]

One difference might be that people sort of think of email more like a letter than a postcard. A court could find that email has protections similar to a letter.

But how can this situation be likened to a car? Car analogies are always the best way to explain complicated things!

Re:Can we extend this

[shellbeach]

Can we extend this

That's what Enzyte was for ...