Is the government reading your emails right now?

Law enforcement officials have a court order to access your emails, where you made phone calls, all sorts of electronic information. Or they don't have that court order. Thing is, you don't know either way. In a new paper, U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith estimates about 30,000 electronic surveillance orders are issued each year in federal courts, a number he finds alarming. Unless the orders lead to actual charges, the person being watched doesn't know. Jeffrey Rosen from George Washington University Law School says the secrecy traces back to 1986's Electronic Communications Privacy Act.