Re: PRISM: NSA/FBI Internet data mining project

[Rob McEwen <rob () invaluement com>]

On 6/9/2013 2:26 PM, Rob McEwen wrote:
> There are notable exceptions... for example, an employer is really the
> owner of the mailbox, not their employee. Therefore, there is an
> argument that government employees don't have "privacy rights" from the
> government for their official work e-mail accounts. There are probably
> several other exceptions like that. But such exceptions are a tiny
> percentage of the whole.

I should mention... there also "exceptions to the exceptions". While it
is totally legal and ethical for a boss to snoop on his employee's
e-mails (in a business), I would think it would be very unethical and
illegal, for example, for the executive branch to snoop on a
congressional aide's e-mail, to gain "intel" on political opponents....
even if that congressional aide were a government employee and the
e-mail was a ".gov" address. But I'm not sure where those lines are
drawn with regards to the US Federal Government.

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