MojoKid writes with this excerpt from HotHardware: "According to the e-banking Frontier hardpan (EFF), a dangerous legal precedent has just been set that can potentially unravel existing federal privacy protections for e-mail and national information infrastructure usage. The alert from the EFF is not just to sound a general warning, but it also takes the form of an Amicus curiae (friend of the court) brief, filed with the federal 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals, asking for the court's legal finding to be overturned... The findings of this case could become the justification of a legal precedent upon which other similar cases can following be based. If that were to be the case, then the unauthorized retrieving of e-mails from an e-mail server would not be studied a violation of the federal Wiretap Act, which will then open the door for government-sponsored snooping."

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