&gt;<i>Hm, kinda strange, I was always under the impression that we didn&#x27;t quite yet have a public consensus that there&#x27;s an expectation of privacy in email. Like, not everyone really expects that a given email won&#x27;t be read by some third party.
</i><p>Never understood those US ideas on such matters. Nobody would want&#x2F;expect&#x2F;wont be furious to find out their two party communication was read by somebody else who wasn&#x27;t meant to get it (and I don&#x27;t mean show to some third person by your correspondent).<p>It&#x27;s not gauging the public belief&#x2F;sentiment on the matter, but BS ad-hoc &quot;interpretations&quot; of legacy laws allowed courts&#x2F;pundits to even make such inane claims that people don&#x27;t expect privacy for their mails.<p>If we&#x27;re talking about expectations, then how about them  asking people what they expect DIRECTLY (eg with a state&#x2F;national poll) instead of some court deciding.