IRS Can Read Your Emails With No Warrant
649 views · Published 12 April 2013 · 4:18 · Indexed 12 November 2026
Channel: Secular Talk · 2013 · News & Politics
Internal Revenue Service guidelines state that they can access your email, direct message tweets, and even your Facebook chats and cell phone text messages without a search warrant, according to the results of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request initiated by the ACLU. As the ACLU notes, sadly the federal law governing all of this is "hopefully outdated." "It draws a distinction between email that is stored on an email provider's server for 180 days or less, and email that is older or has been opened," writes Nathan Freed Wessler, a staff attorney at the ACLU. "The former requires a warrant; the latter does not."... Read More At: http://americablog.com/2013/04/irs-is-reading-your-emails-without-a-warrant.html Clip from the Thursday, April 11th 2013 edition of The Kyle Kulinski Show, which airs live on Blog Talk Radio and Secular Talk Radio monday - friday 5-7pm Eastern. Check out our website - and become a member - at: http://www.SecularTalkRadio.com Listen to the Live Show or On Demand archive at: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/kylekulinski Follow on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/kylekulinski Like on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Secular-Talk-Radio-The-Kyle-Kulinski-Show/443340399068945
