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Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project
From: Rob McEwen <rob () invaluement com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2013 01:00:24 -0400
On 6/9/2013 2:26 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
There are notable exceptions... for example, an employer is really the owner of the mailbox, not their employee. Therefore, there is an argument that government employees don't have "privacy rights" from the government for their official work e-mail accounts. There are probably several other exceptions like that. But such exceptions are a tiny percentage of the whole.
I should mention... there also "exceptions to the exceptions". While it is totally legal and ethical for a boss to snoop on his employee's e-mails (in a business), I would think it would be very unethical and illegal, for example, for the executive branch to snoop on a congressional aide's e-mail, to gain "intel" on political opponents.... even if that congressional aide were a government employee and the e-mail was a ".gov" address. But I'm not sure where those lines are drawn with regards to the US Federal Government. -- Rob McEwen http://dnsbl.invaluement.com/ rob () invaluement com +1 (478) 475-9032
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- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Owen DeLong (Jun 07)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Ishmael Rufus (Jun 07)
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- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project David Miller (Jun 08)
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- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Rob McEwen (Jun 09)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Michael Hallgren (Jun 09)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Rob McEwen (Jun 09)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Jimmy Hess (Jun 09)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Dan White (Jun 21)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Phil Fagan (Jun 21)
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- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Phil Fagan (Jun 21)
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- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Phil Fagan (Jun 21)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Warren Bailey (Jun 21)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Phil Fagan (Jun 21)
- Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project Warren Bailey (Jun 21)