Okay, this story is hitting too close to home, in more ways than one. Quoth the article …

The government needs a search warrant if it wants to read the U.S. mail that arrives at your home. But federal prosecutors say they don’t need a search warrant to read your e-mail messages if those messages happen to be stored in someone else’s computer.
That would include all of the Big Four e-mail providers — Yahoo, AOL, Hotmail and Google — that together hold e-mail accounts for 135 million Americans.

Scary, huh? My recommendation is to always, always encrypt your email. There are several methods of obtaining “digital certificates” to sign your email messages with. Start using them

-Edd