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A coalition of civil liberties groups has joined Yahoo! in its bid to block a government attempt to read messages in a Yahoo! email account without a search warrant. The Department of Justice is seeking the documents in a case that is under seal, and apparently, the agency hasn't notified the account holder of the request, …

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  1. Nexox Enigma

    Wow...

    Everyone still wants their data in the cloud then, right?

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    1. Solomon Grundy
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      No Doubt

      The cloud storage "phenomenon" has always struck me as odd. There are reasons that VC's are wary of 'cloud' startups - privacy concerns are at the top of the list.

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  2. some vaguely opinionated bloke
    Stop

    "what's in this envelope?"

    "They've... claimed that the unidentified user has no expectation that his emails are private because Yahoo has the technical ability to access them."

    And that's different to the [insert local postal service here] because?

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  3. Ihre Papiere Bitte!!
    WTF?

    World turned upside-down!

    I'm stunned that I'm rooting for Google to help defend my privacy...!

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  4. Anonymous Coward
    FAIL

    Google???

    Wow. What a bizarre world we live in when google is defending the right for it to not read emails - or is it just the right to not have to spend money reading emails without being able to use that info to show adverts?

    Still, there are two lessons:

    1 - dont use the cloud for anything.

    2 - encrypt every email you send 'cos once its off your machine you've no idea what is going to happen to it.

    US Gov #FAIL

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  5. Marcus Aurelius
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    Title is wrong

    Google! and! friends! back! Yahoo! bid! to! block! warrantless! email! search!

    There fixed it for you

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  6. scrubber
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    US Government

    More of Obama's "Hope and Change" I see...

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  7. Anonymous Coward
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    What's the problem?

    If the President does it, it's not illegal.

    After all, its not like he takes an oath to uphold the Constitution...

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