Re: On IRC logs, expectation of privacy, and posting
US law would not necessarily hold that an IRC chat was a public place. In
fact, the consensus of legal opinion in the US seems to be the opposite,
that participants in a live on-line chat have a reasonable expectation of
privacy. For an interesting analysis in the context of a criminal case in
the state of Washington, where the judge ruled that a participant in a
live (ICQ) chat had no expectation of privacy under state law, see:
http://www10.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/01/cyber/cyberlaw/14law.html
It is also not entirely clear if you could break, say, Washington state
law while in Germany, if some of the participants of the chat were in
Washington state. This would have messy implications, obviously, but I am
not sure if this has ever been definitively resolved.
-- Mike
On 2000-05-23 at 11:53 +0200, Alexander N. Benner wrote:
> At least in German, standing on a public place is an agreement to be filmed,
> and going to a performance were it sais "television present" is an agreement
> to be shown on tv.
> Speaking public in irc is therefor an agreement to be logged and going to a
> channel were things might get posted is an agreement to be included in it.
> /me thinks.
Reply to: