there is no expectation of privacy with email. Maybe only false expectation.
I'm not sure why this was voted down... not only has the Supreme Court said repeatedly that there's no expectation of privacy since you're trusting the information to a third party... but email isn't even transmitted securely.
If anyone expects their email to be private (and isn't using PGP or something), they have a false expectation of privacy. It's unfortunate that's the case, but that is reality.
Voice communications among common people have never been encrypted, yet have been the major class of privacy-protected communications for the 20th century.
I'm not sure why this was voted down... not only has the Supreme Court said repeatedly that there's no expectation of privacy since you're trusting the information to a third party... but email isn't even transmitted securely.
If anyone expects their email to be private (and isn't using PGP or something), they have a false expectation of privacy. It's unfortunate that's the case, but that is reality.