[145513] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Obama administration seeks warrantless access to email headers.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan Kelm)
Fri Jul 30 09:52:10 2010
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 09:38:44 +0200
From: Stefan Kelm <skelm@bfk.de>
Reply-To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
In-Reply-To: <20100729131206.77fda6ea@jabberwock.cb.piermont.com>
Perry,
> The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic
> communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the
> law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government
Would that really make that much of a difference? In Germany,
at least, the so-called "judge's approval" often isn't worth
a penny, esp. wrt. phone surveillance. It simply is way too
easy to get such an approval, even afterwards.
Cheers,
Stefan.
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