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"I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address. I'd used email since about 1975, and it seems to to me that 15 years of email is plenty for one lifetime."
"With 34 percent of employees spending anywhere from two to four hours a day on e-mail, the potential for lost productivity is enormous." ~ 2006
The term "e-mail bankruptcy" may have been coined as early as 1999 by a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor who studies the relationship between people and technology. Professor Sherry Turkle said she came up with the concept after researching e-mail and discovering that some people harbor fantasies about escaping their e-mail burden.
Stanford University technology professor Lawrence Lessig publicly declared e-mail bankruptcy a few years ago after being deluged by thousands of e-mails. "I eventually got to be so far behind that I was either going to spend all my time answering e-mails or I was going to do my job," he said. Thereafter, Lessig's correspondents received e-mail equivalents of Dear John letters: "Dear person who sent me a yet-unanswered e-mail, he wrote, "I apologize, but I am declaring e-mail bankruptcy," he said, adding an apology for his lack of "cyber decency."
Another Court of Appeals upholds 4th Amendment rights in email. A significant opinion was decided by the 6th Circuit Warshak v. US, upholding 4th Amendment protections for emails. The 6th Circuit ruled, agreeing with an amicus brief filed by EFF, that "A [government] seizure of e-mails from an ISP, without either a warrant supported by probable cause, notice to the account holder to render the intrusion the functional equivalent of a subpoena, or a showing that the user maintained no expectation of privacy in the e-mail, amounts to" a 4th amendment violation. This case is doubly important because the government primarily argued that the 4th Amendment shouldn't matter, as it complied with most (but not all) of the relevant administrative subpoena statute, with its lesser standards of proof. Details: US statutes offer some privacy for emails, based on distinctions like 'sent' vs. 'in transit' vs. 'stored' vs. 'read or unread.' These categories, their standards of proof and the protections they offer, are hotly debated themselves because the US has several statutes (the Wiretap Act, ECPA, etc.) that protect some emails and computer uses, most cases never have to address the 4th Amendment issue. The case can be decided just based on whether the statute was followed. A recent case, Councilman, may be familiar to readers as an example of a case that involved the intricacies of these statutes. But the issue has always been lurking as to whether or not there is additional 4th Amendment protection above and beyond the statutes - especially as amendments (like the Patriot Act) have pared back the protections or standards in these statutes. The court today signaled there clearly is independent 4th Amendment protection, and ruled that some portions of ECPA were constitutionally inadequate. ~ Ethan Ackerman June 2007 http://www.eff.org/legal/cases/warshak_v_usa/ http://volokh.com/posts/1182181742.shtml http://howappealing.law.com/061807.html#026198ABOUT EMAIL & YOUR OWN PERSONAL COMPUTER SECURITY SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM SPAM (NEVER RESPOND to SPAM) EMAIL TOOLS- Fantastic Practical Reference Resource
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The Queen of England sent her first email in 1976 from an Army base.
