Friday, December 29, 2006

Reading your email might not be a privacy invasion

A peddler of male-enhancement formulas and similar goods is of no help to anyone in society (for those not stupid enough to buy them, your suspicions are confirmed -- the products do not work). However, he still has rights, and among those a right to privacy. Too bad the government doesn't think so. Government investigators looked at the aforementioned businessman's email without the blessing of a search warrant, arguing that email is akin to postcards, which apparently can be looked at without opening anything and are therefore privacy-less. Strange reasoning, but if anyone can get away with it, it's the government.

Funny, I don't view my email, through which I send 90% of my correspondence to distant (and near) friends/family/associates/etc., as something that can be treated as a billboard...

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