, 2004-04-12
When a New Hampshire judge threw out chat-log evidence against an accused pedophile, he illustrated just how jumbled and confused Internet privacy law can be.
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, 2004-04-12 When a New Hampshire judge threw out chat-log evidence against an accused pedophile, he illustrated just how jumbled and confused Internet privacy law can be.
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"The packets are forwarded by routers and are automatically stored -- at least temporarily -- in the receiving machine's random access memory. Should converting this volatile memory to non-volatile memory be a felony? We need to get beyond the technology itself (AOL vs. ICQ)"
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It still boils down to the fact a permenent record would not have existed. RAM is overwritten consistantly and is expected to perform this way. There is no difference between "copying" the data in RAM and "copying" the data of the screen. It's still making a copy.
The thing about the law is that, when written well, can be really specific for a wide range of cases. Whether that leans in the direction we think it should or not.
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