Judge rebuffs Feds’ attempt to search mac.com email

While specifics of the case have not been made public, a federal magistrate judge has issued an unusual rebuke to the US government over its request for a warrant to search the records of an unnamed @mac.com user. The request was rejected by the judge for being “overly broad” and because it “makes no effort to balance the law enforcement interests against the obvious expectation of privacy email account holders have in their communications.”…