Is it possible to retrieve any personal emails/mesages have been deleted completly, even they have been deleted out of trash box? Can any government officers (who are authorized) be able to retrieve your personal deleted emails?
2006-08-20 13:54:52 · 14 answers · asked by patrick 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
Yes, absolutely! Any e-mails sent may be retrieved and none is truly deleted. What is more, ISP providers are pressured to disclose to Government any information sought, to this effect now the contract that is signed with an ESP provider is very ambiguous and allows it to disclose your information without becoming liable. Read the news, have'nt you read about the chinese citizen who was imprisonned due to proof provided by Yahoo by government request? They provided government with proof with copy of an e-mail that was'nt even sent, it was in his draft box. The best you can do is have an encryptor like Cryptainer which is elementary to use and you can use it to send encrypted e-mails. This of course brings you to the password safety issue......and so on and so forth....
2006-08-20 14:14:40 · answer #1 · answered by Alex S 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all the govt needs a search warrant to enter your home and look on your computer (they can normally re-read deleted emails as long as they were not written over). If the email is stored at an ISP etc., they need the equivalent of a phone tap order (requires Judge and probable cause etc.). So if you are a criminal and need to hide this then worry - but if you are a normal person and paranoid that the govt is after you - forget it, they have bigger problmes than to worry about your email. Remember - there are billios of emails everyday - why do they care about yours (unless you are a criminal)?
2006-08-20 14:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by fffrrreeeddd 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
As far as I'm aware all e-mails are routinely transmitted through the USAF base at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire, England where they are stored for at least a year.
The base is a highly sophisticated early warning and monitoring station and it's no secret that e-mails and phone calls from around the world are intercepted and recorded there. I don't know whether this applies to all communications or just to the ones that contain certain sensitive keywords (e.g. terrorist, bomb, Bush, Blair etc)
2006-08-20 14:04:50 · answer #3 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes
2006-08-20 14:00:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
have you ever checked your "despatched" folder? in case you probably did no longer delete that record, you may retrieve it. additionally, if the government organization despatched you a respond, there is an danger they lined the record with their respond. good success.
2016-10-02 08:21:57 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably. I've seen stuff like that on "Law and Order," but I don't know if that's reality, but I wouldn't be surprised. Why? What did you need to delete completely?
2006-08-20 14:00:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't matter what you delete on your computer or e-mail service. The mail traffic is capture in-transit so they will always have a copy of anything that you received.
2006-08-20 14:37:59 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Yes, because they are still on the ISP's server even though you deleted them.
2006-08-20 14:00:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Big Brother is watching
2006-08-24 06:20:22 · answer #9 · answered by gorillaguth 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There are programs that completely wipe it out by overwriting it several times.
2006-08-20 14:02:17 · answer #10 · answered by Chri R 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋