Appeals Circuit Ruling: ISPs Can Read E-Mail
brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org
brian-slashdotnews at hyperreal.org
Wed Jun 30 15:26:03 PDT 2004
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/
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