On Thursday 25 February 2010 01:39:54 pm Stuart Jansen wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-25 at 13:26 -0700, Graduate Studies Web Master wrote: > > Are we going to sue God for violation of privacy? > > Now that's a false analogy if ever I've seen one. God doesn't have > anything even approaching the same track record of abuse of power as > mortals.
True, but not all mortals are created equal. Just because one mortal is a hacker doesn't mean another, even if he works in network surveillance, is bad as well. If I understand the laws correctly (and IANAL), even though BYU has the right to search through your stuff and consider it theirs doesn't mean they can do with it whatever they like. In their policies the company needs to dictate what they do and what can be done with the data. If they don't follow those policies or they do something that is against criminal law then they are still liable in civil and/or criminal courts. -- Alberto Treviño BYU Testing Center Brigham Young University -------------------- BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ The opinions expressed in this message are the responsibility of their author. They are not endorsed by BYU, the BYU CS Department or BYU-UUG. ___________________________________________________________________ List Info (unsubscribe here): http://uug.byu.edu/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
