The ACLU has raised a disturbing possibility after reading 247 pages of records it obtained from the Internal Revenue Service via a Freedom of Information Act request: The agency may be reading taxpayers’ emails without a warrant. The IRS was told not to do this after a 2010 appellate court ruling in United States v. Warshak that resulted in the court throwing out 27,000 emails the IRS had obtained without a warrant. However, the ACLU now seems to think the IRS has reverted to its previous behavior — or perhaps never stopped.
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IRS May Be Sifting Through Email in Defiance of Court Order
Posted by: Erika Morphy April 11, 2013 11:11 AMThe ACLU has raised a disturbing possibility after reading 247 pages of records it obtained from the Internal Revenue Service via a Freedom of Information Act request: The agency may be reading taxpayers’ emails without a warrant. The IRS was told not to do this after a 2010 appellate court ruling in United States v. Warshak that resulted in the court throwing out 27,000 emails the IRS had obtained without a warrant. However, the ACLU now seems to think the IRS has reverted to its previous behavior — or perhaps never stopped.