But the unanimous ruling by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says that government searches of stored e-mail violate a citizen's reasonable expectation of privacy.

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The young woman, a dual Spanish and German citizen, was 23 in September, the e-mail said.

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For example, E-Verify denied employment to Juan Carlos, a naturalized U.S. citizen, after the State Department failed to notify the Social Security Administration of his status change.

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There would be no need to review loan applications from (e.g.) adults that have been self-supporting for 20 years and need to use their citizen line of credit to tide them over during a period of unemployment.

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Now, that curtain has risen slightly: Users can again send e-mail and access the Web, according to Ron Deibert, director at the University of Toronto's Citizen Lab and an investigator at the OpenNet Initiative.

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