Quote Originally Posted by lizbud View Post

and, the Federal Government already has these powers, thanks to the
current Republican administration.

Do you know exactly how the government/law agencies look thru emails to find out about kiddie porn, terrorism and other crap like that?

From what I understand about the 'system' is that there are a few ways to monitor criminal activity on you computer.

Filters, people get stupid and send the 'wrong' email to someone, you take your computer in to get serviced and the nerd tech looks for your porn on your machine, or the feds trap someone, they do the forensic search and find out that you were getting the KP on you email account-then you have the feds and how they catch the idiots.

There are also programmed 'filters' that tag emails that look suspicious.

There is no one person reading you emails, unless you are doing something stupid on the internet.

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If there is no specific wording in a law it becomes the job of the people who are 'arresting' or 'suspecting' you have to interpet the law and 'do it justice',
How many times has a criminal been released, only to commit another crime, because of the wording in the law?


With internet crimes, law agencies have different laws to refer to from state to state, country to country-they often have problems with charging someone because of all the different jurisdictions and how they look at the crime.

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A warrantless search?

If a cop sees a crime or called to the scene of a crime, they can search, without a warrant. Probable cause? Same thing.

"I/We had reason to suspect........" Are the golden words that will get a cop into your shorts if he thinks you have done something wrong.

That's the way the ball bounces.