Thursday, January 20

Should E-Mail and Letters Have Equal Legal Protection?

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Over the weekend, we reported that the government had ordered Twitter to turn over private information about users associated with WikiLeaks.

The order was fairly routine, and Twitter and other Internet companies have so far refused to talk more about it. But, as we wrote in Monday’s paper, the high-profile nature of the court order brought to light an issue that cyberlaw experts have been discussing for years: the ways in which the law lags fast-changing technology.

Read more here
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/13/should-e-mail-and-letters-have-equal-protection/?ref=technology

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