, 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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There is a chat window, it has a complete record of the entire conversation, and when you close that window you choose to discard that recording. I don't see how it is illegal for someone else to NOT discard a recording.
Now if no record of the conversation was made during the conversation, then fair enough, but an IM client that has a chat window, by default, records the conversation.
In my opinion it is obvious that your computer is recording the conversation, hence you are consenting to the record if you use the program. Moreover, if your computer is recording the conversation so is the computer of the person/police officer you are talking too, so use of the program is consenting it to the conversation being recorded. The fact that you close the program down and CHOOSE to discard the recording is irrelvant imo.
But hell, I'm no lawyer.
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