> I'm saying that meddling with someone else's data isn't a privacy issue in the same way that if I enter your home and cut your table in half, the destruction

> I'm saying that meddling with someone else's data isn't a privacy issue in the same way that if I enter your home and cut your table in half, the destruction of your table isn't a privacy issue. If I had written a message on the table that directed the recipient to destroy it to communicate something to me, it would be. Then you'd have entered our correspondence and communicated on their behalf in a setting I understood to be private, which in turn might prompt me to change my course of action and further correspondence.