Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/06/30/2014242 Posted by: timothy, on 2004-06-30 20:54:00 Topic: privacy, 248 comments from the odd-distinctions dept. leviramsey writes "The US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (covering Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island) has ruled that [1]e-mail providers are not violating the law by reading users' e-mail without the user's consent. The [2]decision finds that the Wiretap Act does not cover interception of communications where the communications are being stored, not transmitted. Perhaps OSDN should send the defendant, accused in 2001 of reading users emails in order to find out what they were interested in purchasing from Amazon, a [3]T-shirt from ThinkGeek?" References 1. http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,64043,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1 2. http://www.ca1.uscourts.gov/pdf.opinions/03-1383-01A.pdf 3. http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts/frustrations/31fb/ ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]