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- From: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- Message-ID: <1992Dec17.002217.14769@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Reply-To: Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- Organization: SCN Research/Qic Laboratories of Tigard, Oregon.
- References: <1992Dec11.164849.3491@nic.csu.net>,<Bz9DB1.LHq@avalon.nwc.navy.mil> <1992Dec14.133030.804@ualr.edu> <28182@optima.cs.arizona.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 00:22:17 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- ho@cs.arizona.edu (Hilarie Orman) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec14.133030.804@ualr.edu>, lindstrom@acs.harding.edu
- >writes:
- >|> As for the phone, it is also for business. ... if
- >|> someone is making personal long distance calls, that's taking money
- >|> from our already small budget and I want to know.
-
- >The analogy with computer use rights would be if concern for
- >enforcement extended to monitoring employee phone calls and turning
- >over any suspicious information to the police. Certainly this has
- >been done in some places, and I imagine sometimes this has raised
- >civil rights issues that go beyond the ownership of the telephone.
-
- <sigh>
-
- I suggest that some of the folks in this discussion *read* the applicable
- sections of ECPA. It's *quite* clear on this. If you stumble across
- something during your regular duties, you can (and should) report it.
-
- On the other hand, it is *illegal* to turn over info found be *deliberate*
- snooping. Yes, that's right. If you are snooping and find evidence of
- something illegal, *you* can be sued if you reveal it to anyone!
-
- This still leaves room for abuse, but you have to *work* at it.
-
- --
- Leonard Erickson leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com
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