Reading Someone's Gmail Doesn't Violate Federal Statute

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CommanderFrank

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The S.C. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that reading someone else’s email stored in the cloud was not illegal. The ruling was based on the still-standing Stored Communications Act written in 1986. The ruling creates a legal problem since it counters a similar ruling made by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2004.

While this case deals with a fairly narrow subsection of the SCA—what constitutes electronic storage—it’s yet another example that the Stored Communications Act needs more judicial review at the very least, and possibly an entire overhaul.
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So they just ruled this way... alright cool... you aren't too bright if you store mission critical or highly sensitive info in the cloud anyways. BUT

Do you think the supreme court will still sing the same tune once some crooked capital hill political douche gets his email or info peeped via the cloud?
 
What exactly is 'The Cloud'? If it constitutes anything that's remotely stored, then Obamas emails on the whitehouse servers are open game.
 
If someone comes to your house and writes something down using your pen and paper and leaves it there, do you have the right to read what they've written if you haven't made some prior agreement.
 
collegeboy69us said:
So they just ruled this way... alright cool... you aren't too bright if you store mission critical or highly sensitive info in the cloud anyways. BUT

Do you think the supreme court will still sing the same tune once some crooked capital hill political douche gets his email or info peeped via the cloud?
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Our betters telling us what to do. No vote for you!
 
In this case, it should be Google going after her. She committed an aggression upon their property (their computers and servers) by breaking into it. She should be treated the same as anyone who committing the act of breaking and entering into a building.
 
Well, seems like you need to keep a local copy (in their eyes) to be covered by the law - in order to make the "cloud" your backup copies.

Dumb, but there it is.
 
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