[filoeleven]

> AND read all your emails and text messages that are over 6 months old, without a warrant

Source for this? Was it big news? First I've heard of it.

[ck2]

This is well known, just no-one talks about it anymore like NSA, DHS violations, etc.

Why do you think she had a personally owned email server in her basement instead of using a 3rd party?

Bill Clinton signed 1986 Electronic Communications Act into law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Communications_Priv...

Any communication, email, sms, etc. on a 3rd party like Gmail that is 180 days old is simply considered "abandoned" under that law and can be read without any judicial oversight, no warrant needed. Major services even have portals for law enforcement to just browse away

Congress purposely never updates the law, it's 40 years out of date

[schoen]

Just one correction: Clinton wasn't president yet in 1986. That was signed by Reagan.

Clinton signed the 1996 Telecommunications Act which also had problems but which didn't change this specific legal norm.