[PLUG] Email Legal Issues

[Charles Sliger]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org [mailto:plug-admin at lists.pdxlinux.org]
> On Behalf Of Eric Harrison
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:50 PM
> To: plug at lists.pdxlinux.org
> Subject: RE: [PLUG] Email Legal Issues
> 
> On Thu, 13 May 2004, Charles Sliger wrote:
> <<<SNIP>>>
> >I would be surprised to find that you could argue for presumption of
> privacy
> >if you send messages in clear text over a public network.
> >Maybe the same rules apply as for the phone network, but the Internet is
> >much more public and much less controlled than the phone network.
> >-chaz
> 
> You might want to read up on the Electronic Communications Privacy Act
> of 1986. A quick search turns up these links:
> 
> http://legal.web.aol.com/resources/legislation/ecpa.html
> http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Email_Internet_Web/ecpa_laymans_view.article
> http://floridalawfirm.com/privacy.html
> http://cio.doe.gov/Documents/ECPA.HTM
> 
> -Eric

Thanks for the links.  Very informative.
The law seems to be much more intelligent on this issue than I would have
thought.
-chaz