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IRS: We can Read your Emails

Thursday, April 25, 2013 11:00

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The IRS according to their 2009 In house employee manual states that they don’t need a warrant to read your emails, just a subpoena, which doesn’t require a judges “ok”

Why you may ask?

Because according to the IRS, You, Me, anyone on the Internet “do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in such communications.”

That’s right..we don’t have an expectation to have our communications be private…now a public forum board, yes that is PUBLIC, however my private emails are well that…private.

This position was reiterated by a 2010 presentation by the IRS Office of the General Counsel as well as stayed unchanged AFTER a March 2011 update to the manual.

This is strange since a FEDERAL appeals court decision in U.S. v. Warshak stated that the police VIOLATED a mans constitutional rights by reading his emails without a warrant; this was kindly sidestepped by the IRS with them saying..well it only applies to the Sixth Circuit Courts area, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and Tennessee.

The real issue is that many law enforcement departments and agencies along with agencies like the IRS have long argued that people have “limited privacy rights” over information shared over third party networks. Now when this pertains to Facebook or Twitter, I would agree to a certain point, however in the realm of private emails NOT AT ALL.

The “right” to this information has been drawn from the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act that states that government officials only need a subpoena to read emails that have been opened or are more than 180 days old. This is a law that has come up for review and updating.

I would urge you to write your Congressman and tell them to support further protections for private electronic communications.

2013-04-25 10:06:18

Source: http://www.greatnorthernprepper.com/irs-we-can-read-your-emails/

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