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By contrast, in France for example, secrecy of correspondence is the default. It has been explicitely extended in 2004 to e-mail, but the law as it was after a
by linschn 13y ago
By contrast, in France for example, secrecy of correspondence is the default. It has been explicitely extended in 2004 to e-mail, but the law as it was after a change in 1988 certainly already covered that.
Tampering with e-mail is thus punished the same way as tampering with a physical letter. Being an agent of the government constitutes aggravating circumstances.
Circumventing those protections requires the intervention of an independent (as in independent from the executive) judge.
- r00fus 13y agoNote to citizens of the USA: This is what you get when a government is afraid of it's citizens. Freedom fries, indeed. Guns not needed.
- rsync 13y agoNo, this is a good point. History suggests that the government of france should absolutely be afraid of french citizens.
- mcguire 13y agoTo (mis-) quote Rick Steves, the city of Paris repaved its streets, removing the historic cobbles, to prevent the citizens from using the streets...as weapons. Non-apathetic citizenry probably trumps well-armed citizenry.