Monday, March 18, 2013

Justice Department bends on (some) e-mail privacy fixes





Attorney General Eric Holder




(Credit: Getty Images)

The Obama administration has dropped its insistence that police should be able to warrantlessly peruse Americans' e-mail correspondence.




But at the same time, the Justice Department is advancing new proposals that would expand government surveillance powers over e-mail messages, Twitter direct messages, and Facebook direct messages in other ways.




It's a development that will complicate the political wrangling over Americans' electronic privacy rights, which are primarily governed by a 1986 privacy law written in the pre-Internet days of the black-and-white Macintosh Plus and dial-up computer bulletin board systems.




"It's like two steps forward and two steps back," says Hanni Fakhoury, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "I question how much they're really conceding."




Elana Tyrangiel, a former White House lawyer who's now an acting assistant attorney general, will announce the department's new policy positions at a congressional hearing that's scheduled to take place tomorrow morning.




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