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width="71" align="right" border="0" />Time to find an offshore e-mail service. Wired News is warning the Senate version of the Homeland Security Act makes it much easier for ISPs to disclose e-mail communications without being served with a warrant. An EFF spokesman says this is a “recipe for privacy abuse.”

The new rules, if adopted, would modify the Patriot Act’s fairly strict “reasonable belief” test with a “good faith” provision, allow disclosure to “any federal, state or local governmental entity,” not just law enforcement agencies, and removes an “immediacy” requirement.

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