Court: Mom's Eavesdropping Violated Law

“Court: Mom's Eavesdropping Violated Law

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=8&u=/ap/20041209/ap_on_re_us/parental_snooping


I bet The Law is hot on Mapleleaf's heels! ;-)”

“That's pretty messed up.

A teenager has the right to expect privacy on a phone extension they don't pay for?

Next thing you know, your dog has the right to expect privacy while licking his nuts in the middle of the family room.”

“me?
what?
hey?

I think not
I give twignut a lot of room to grow and make her mistakes. she is a teenager.

I am guilty of checking things out. but very rarly! only when I am very worried that she might be going over the edge.

trouble maker!”

“Just one more thing to add to my list of why I'm glad I don't have kids.”

“My mom once dropped from the eaves. She was putting up Christmas lights. Luckily I was there to catch her. People, eaves dropping can be dangerous if done solo. Also, apparently from this article, it's illegal. If you're gonna do it anyway, always get someone to spot you.”

“ROFLMAO!!!!!”

“If you don't regularly anonymize your Google cookie and purge your personalized search history, now might be a good time to start (then again, in this day and age, why bother?). The Department of Justice on Wednesday asked a federal judge to order Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year for search records stored in its databases.

The DOJ argues that the information it has requested, which includes one million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from a one-week period, is essential to its upcoming defense of the constitutionality of the Child Online Protection Act. Google has so far refused to comply with the subpoena, saying the release of such information would violate the privacy of its users. "Google is not a party to this lawsuit, and the demand for the information is overreaching,'' Nicole Wong, an associate general counsel for Google, told The Mercury News. "[We plan to fight the government's effort] "vigorously.''

Here's hoping the company prevails. The release of such records sets a truly unsettling precedent. And if the goverment's claim that other, unspecified search engines have already agreed to release similar information proves true, we have already lost our footing on a very slippery, very dangerous slope.


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last edited: 1/19/06 9:29:19 AM”