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Oh, yeah, I was talking about subjective expectations of privacy. I didn't realize you were arguing a legal perspective. When I say expectations, I don't mean
by foobarbazqux 13y ago
Oh, yeah, I was talking about subjective expectations of privacy. I didn't realize you were arguing a legal perspective. When I say expectations, I don't mean societal rights, I just mean what I expect to happen. I think they derive largely from how we experience the world physically, and I think that they translate poorly to online privacy. In particular, we usually consider conversations between two people to be private, but two computers talking to each other is quite often public.
- diminoten 13y agoAbsolutely. It's one of the hardest parts of all of this - translating physical space expectations to the Internet. Congress should draft up some kind of "rules of engagement" for the Internet, explicitly setting expectations. We know we're going to get searched at the airport, but we have no clue what the US government is going to do to us when we're online. That would be friggin' helpful to know.