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The telephone company does not have a right to listen to your phone calls. I know as there are lots of rules for line technicians when someone is on the line w
by snarfy 13y ago
The telephone company does not have a right to listen to your phone calls. I know as there are lots of rules for line technicians when someone is on the line while they are working on it. So why is this true of email? Because of a EULA? You cannot sign away your rights, EULA or otherwise. That's why they are called rights.
- quesera 13y agoYou have no right to privacy in the US. You can't sign it away or have it violated, because it doesn't exist. You have a reasonable expectation of privacy, or at least you would if you hadn't explicitly waived it by agreeing to the ToS. The phone company is a special case, because the regulations for wire communications were written in an era when people cared about this sort of thing, and the zeitgeist wasn't manipulated by the spectre of terror. I'm not defending Microsoft here. But you'll get no redress from government (the theoretical defenders of natural rights in a democratic society) in this case. Obviously.
- msabalau 13y agoThis is accurate if viewing rights from a US legal perspective. People who care deeply about privacy could make the case that this is unjust because there the legal system ought to recognize this as a natural human right. Others, of a more philosophical bent, might note that the whole concept of "rights" is rather silly.