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Petraeus Case Raises Fears About Privacy in Digital Era

10 points| danso | 13 years ago |nytimes.com | reply

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[+] achughes|13 years ago|reply
I'm disappointed that I don't have a source on this, but from what I understand, you have to sign papers that gives the government full access to your accounts at any time when you join the CIA. For such a high level individual I don't think that the internal spying is unreasonable, especially when it is an understood part of the system.
[+] mturmon|13 years ago|reply
They did get Paula Broadwell's email information, and she wasn't CIA.

After what we learned of the other general, it seems like they might have pulled in a lot of other metadata (who mailed who) about the email activity of a lot of third parties.

The furor surrounding this investigation may help us to understand how much information is easy for the government to obtain with only minimal oversight.