Legal privacy invasion is the real concern. Not hackers.

Your emails are up for grabs. Be careful what you write because piracy in the name of protection is alive at the federal level. For example, The Electronic Protection Act of 2003 which I refer to as the Electronic Piracy Act gives the Feds the right to require your hosting company to turn over all of your e-mails, including the e-mails of people who e-mailed you as well as who you e-mailed your e-mails to. Your hosting company is the company that when you go on the Internet handles your emails and allows you to access other websites, like the one you are on now.

The Electronic Piracy Act gives the government the right to require that hosting company, your hosting company, to give them records of all the websites you visited, how long you visited there, what you did, what you bought, including your subscription to Playboy and that last pair of red shoes you purchased from Target. For some, this access might prove embarrassing. But for all of us, it seems like it is a clear invasion of privacy. It is adverse to the general public’s interest.

Now before I’m through with the Electronic Piracy Act, remember that your records, your personal email records, can be acquired based only on the signature of an FBI Regional Representative. You do not have to be a felon. You do not have to be accused of any crime. Further, the FBI does not have to notify you that your records have been acquired. You do not have to be a terrorist, you don’t have to be a suspected terrorist, and you don’t have to be part of any litigation. Technically, an FBI Regional Representative who simply wanted to get into your personal records could require them to be produced from your local ISP and, believe it or not, there is no provision for you to litigate the FBI or U.S. government that these records were obtained illegally. Why? Because they’ve made it legal to obtain the records without subpoena, without reason, without due process, without you even being a suspect for anything.

You doubt the veracity of what I say in this blog. Well, don’t. Go take a look at the Electronic Protection Act and read it yourself. Take a look at it yourself. I know it’s surprising, particularly in light of the strike down of the Arizona Immigration Law. Sure!

Think about it.

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