{"id":178,"date":"2011-04-10T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2011-04-10T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T17:41:20","slug":"fourth-amendment-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment in the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the law currently on the books, email stored for more than 180 days in a hosting environment &#8211; including on so-called &#8220;cloud&#8221; servers like those of Hotmail or Gmail &#8211; is considered &#8220;abandoned&#8221; and can be obtained without a warrant. Efforts to rectify this mid-1980s legislative situation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2011\/04\/fourth-amendment-email-2\/\">are being actively opposed by the Obama administration<\/a>, who apparently feel that due process is a bit of a hassle and would rather not deal with the realities of how people now use email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the law currently on the books, email stored for more than 180 days in a hosting environment &#8211; including on so-called &#8220;cloud&#8221; servers like those of Hotmail or Gmail &#8211; is considered &#8220;abandoned&#8221; and can be obtained without a warrant. Efforts to rectify this mid-1980s legislative situation are being actively opposed by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.digitalundercurrents.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}