On Wednesday 20 April 2005 05:42 am, Dominic Amann wrote: > Simon Lange wrote: > > Jeff Brenton wrote: > >> The perfect solution to this is to send out periodic "privacy notices" > >> to users, pointing out that anything left on the system, including mail > >> left in > >> the trash folder, is subject to seizure during any official inquiry. > > > > does not work in germany. a federal law is a federal law and sending > > notices prior to violate against them is no solution. even contract must > > not violate (even in parts only) federal law. > > > > in germany you must not delete mails from other users. the *only* > > solution would be to get an explicit permission per case by every > > individual user *before* deleting their trash folder. > > Would this not imply that a spam-assasin type solution would also be > illegal if it 'auto-deletes' detected spam?
Interesting.. that would seem to fit the law..
