Cyrus Farivar at Ars Technica: "Right now, if the cops want to read my e-mail, it’s pretty trivial for them to do so. All they have to do is ask my online e-mail provider. But a new bill set to be introduced Thursday in the Senate Judiciary Committee by its chair, Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), seems to stand the best chance of finally changing that situation and giving e-mail stored on remote servers the same privacy protections as e-mail stored on one's home computer."

  • bcsizemo

    I assume as it works now your provider is giving them a copy of what is in your account?  I wonder this because I have Google setup with the 2 step verification via text message…wonder how that’d work otherwise.

  • seatacwebdesign

    You keep on hearing about all of these different laws being passed which tackle privacy. This one would be a step in the right direction. 

  • Mitchell Glaser

    I will never believe that my data stored on remote servers will ever be other than totally transparent to the big intelligence agencies.

  • http://www.jimdraws.com Thorzdad

    Sadly, even if it makes it out of the Senate, it will die on-arrival in the House, largely because it’s a Democrat-originated bill. And, it’s an election year. Such is the state of Congress.

    • http://twitter.com/avidwriter_ avidwriter_

      it’s been like that the last few years unfortunately.  

  • http://www.zazzle.com/InfinitudeTortoises* An Infinitude of Tortoises

    I’d like to see a bill guaranteeing greater privacy protection than is now afforded  e-mail stored on one’s home computer!

  • agilecyborg

    The warrant will just slow them down a tad. Most judges seem bent on approving every warrant they can. It ought to be a rule anymore: Don’t use digital technology to communicate sensitive information.

    • http://lemoutan.blogspot.com/ Lemoutan

      I used arrangements of pebbles on beaches.

      Then that damn Google Earth thing flounced in …

  • Peter Wood

    The article isn’t about GMail per se.