Change This Email Setting to Keep Cops OUT of Your Inbox

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42670639

There is a federal privacy law from the 1980s that give the cops a giant loophole to access your emails without a search warrant.

In this video, I’ll show you:

What law has that giant loophole
How this loophole works
How police and government agencies have exploited it
Why Congress hasn’t closed it
And most importantly — what you can do right now to protect your email privacy

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No real setting is discussed tho I presume that a savvy user could use pop3 and auto delete later (before the 180 day mark discussed in the video). Still an interesting video on the legal framework of searches around digital services.

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Holy clickbait batman!


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TL;DR

E-mails stored on provider’s servers that are under 180 days old are considered private and require a judicial warrant to access, while e-mails older than 180 days are considered ‘abandoned’ and are available to be obtained with a subpoena written by any law enforcement agency.

The setting: Delete your e-mails before they’re over 180 days old.


Yeah, my inbox is encrypted. They can get in with a warrant but they can’t read the data.


Just use an e2e encrypted mail provider instead.

This is only secure if both clients use it.



Lol it ends suggesting using Whatsapp.

Fuuuuuuuuuck that.


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