It's not illegal, AFAIK, for UPS to open and inspect your packages. We
trust that they don't without good cause, but they could if they wanted.
Now, if the USPS was providing email, we could trust that it was
relatively secure. Three days late and delivered to the wrong address,
but secure.
--BenD
Kevin Graeme wrote:
> > If people choose
> > to conduct their private business over GMail then they know what they're
> > getting into.
>
> Actually most people don't. Most people don't understand the concepts of
> clear text and mail storage. They simply, and logically, extrapolate that
> email is under the same legal protection as postal mail. And why shouldn't
> it be? Ignore the technical issues right now, just looking at the legal. Why
> shouldn't email fall under the same privacy laws as physical mail? You and I
> know that it doesn't, but why shouldn't it?
>
> -Kevin
>
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