Score one for privacy
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on May 13, 2003 at 12:39:57 AM
A federal appeals court has made it illegal to collect information on an invidual without the person's consent online. Privacy and security are usually a trade off. In this case though, privacy has won.
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The ruling is significant, because the appeals panel attempted to address some muddy legal issues related to online data collection. These questions include what, in the online world, constitutes protected "content" for the purposes of intercepting communications--a technique commonly used by law enforcement agencies.