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Comment by ghayes

I wish we would treat cyberspace analogues of established property with the same respect given to the original. For example, your e-mail inbox is the online equivalent of your mailbox. Yet, one being "on your lawn" and the other "at Google's data-center," all bets are off. While I believe the Supreme Court should do better job at explicitly addressing this (for instance, "responsible expectation of privacy" established Katz[1] would be a fair test for e-mail, while Jones[2] and Kyllo[3] show the importance of taking modern technology into account), the government needs to firmly establish which techniques are important for security while protecting us from those which recklessly violate privacy.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0389...

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/10-1259

[3] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/99-8508.ZS.html

parent ghayes 14 years ago

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