At 04:44 PM 7/21/00 -0400, you wrote:
>I still am wondering where is the precedent that all government employees are
>employess of the people, so that any person has the right to view government
>employees' e-mail as their employer.
In Florida, there exists what is called the "Sunshine Law" (We're so witty.
Ha. Ha. Ha.)
http://www.sfwmd.gov/org/erd/webboard/sunshine.html
It basically grants the public access to any electronic or paper records,
(as well as meetings) that don't specifically include confidential
information about private citizens.
--Wilson.
>Gina Miller wrote:
>
> > I saw on the boob tube tonight an MSNBC program that aired an FBI man and a
> > reporter discussing a new software program called 'Carnivore' (meaning it
> > can get to the meat) that the FBI plans to activate.
> > If this is to take effect, the software is distributed to the server on
> > which our email is located, then it with a general eye scans all the email
> > of every client (from who, to who, subject line) , it can also be told to
> > search for specific words within the body of emails, and hunt them out. The
> > claim is, that it is to locate emails about hacking and other criminal
> > activity. I think there would be some trickle down effect for corporate
> > interest as well. Survey results exposed on the show, explains that
> > corporations do a high level of saving 'at work emails' and 'employee's
> > computer data' as it is. My problem with this digital wiretap, is that it
> > will be 'spying' on innocent people as well and infringing on their
> privacy,
> > and the context at which diction is used, may be misconstrued.
> > After the program aired, I searched the MSNBC site on the net and found a
> > url http://www.msnbc.com/news/432143.asp
> >
> > Gina "Nanogirl" Miller
> > Nanotechnology Industries
> > http://www.nanoindustries.com
> > Personal: http://www.nanogirl.com
> > nanogirl@halcyon.com
> > "Nanotechnology: Solutions for the future."
>
>--
>Ross Andrew Finlayson
>Finlayson Consulting
>Ross at Tiki-Lounge: http://www.tiki-lounge.com/~raf/
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