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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Re: CERT and the Dept. of Justice on keystroke monitoring
- In-Reply-To: leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.235726.23374@nntp.hut.fi>
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- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- References: <1992Dec13.085734.19916@news.Hawaii.Edu> <mt_rrwn@dixie.com> <1992Dec14.180915.13795@cc.ic.ac.uk> <1992Dec16.192639.12991@eecs.nwu.edu> <1992Dec18.100254.4122@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec22.150816.13247@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:57:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.150816.13247@qiclab.scn.rain.com>, leonard@qiclab (Leonard Erickson) writes:
- >But "goverment-owned" or even "public property" *still* involves property
- >rights. City Hall is public property, right down to the supplies in the
- >storeroom. That does *not* mean that the public can walk in and use the
- >supplies.
-
- Actually, it doesn't involve property rights, ie. government doesn't
- have rights. What is involved is a policy of what the public property
- should be used for and the issue of how the policy is made. If the
- policy decided by the public on City Hall is that it is for use by
- hired workers only, the public doesn't have a right to walk in and use
- them. If the policy is that everything is for public use, then they
- have a right to do so.
-
- >"Public property" generally has some purpose or reason for existence. And
- >the administering agency has property rights, not all that different from
- >those a private person or company would have.
-
- I think they're very different. When a private person owns something,
- she need not give any reason for anybody else on why she decides to do
- something with the thing. But as you say, public property has a
- purpose - and the duty of the administering agency is to use the
- property for that purpose. The agency has no right to use the public
- property in a way the heads of the agency like - the policy should
- come from the public.
-
- >At the federal agencies, you do *not* have a right to access on
- >their system anymore than you have a right to access any *phsyical*
- >property they have.
-
- You are right, if the policy is that it's not for public use. But the
- citizens do have a right to have a say in the policy.
-
- >And at educational sites, the *students* may
- >have access rights but not the general public. Just like with the
- >classrooms and labs.
-
- Again, if it's publicly funded the general public has a right to have
- a say on the policy. Also, via academic freedom I'd say there are
- some privacy (and other) rights involved.
-
- (by the way, where I live the lectures at universities are public, the
- law says they must be)
-
- //Jyrki
-