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Seth Meyers on Trump's Unhinged Attacks on Mueller and McCabe, and the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica Scandal

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Anymouse 🌹🏡😷3/20/2018 2:56:03 pm PDT

re: #25 KGxvi

There is an issue unique to the president and White House staff under the Presidential Records Act. Yes, they are entitled to keep private email and documents, but a lot of their documents may fall into the categories of documents that are governed by the act. The fact that they are using systems specifically designed to circumvent the law (as there’s no evidence that email or documents were archived) is very much a problem.

It is also a problem if documents are being hidden/destroyed so that a review of whether they qualify under the Act can be conducted.

Leaving out the issues of the Presidential Records Act, Proton Mail is not “specifically designed to circumvent the law.” It is designed to be private (unlike services like Gmail, which scan your text to feed you targeted adverts).

Is is used to circumvent the law? Probably. For a long time police and the GOP have argued that private encryption should not be allowed (presumably so they can circumvent the law, as in required to get a warrant).

Even with my wife’s server, I do not keep E-mail (though I am not a White House staffer either). Anything I am not presently working with I delete.

Mail which goes in or out of Proton Mail to another service is not encrypted - it can be read on the other end. It is only encrypted within the system.

You can set other services to auto-delete messages as well (Snapchat is famous for that).