They were government executives using government equipment to discuss government business, I don't think they have any expectations of privacy. Nor does an officer of a corporation using corporation equipment to discuss corporate business get any expectation of privacy. I think you need a different straw man for your privacy arguments, these idiots aren't in the game.
-- rec -- On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:32 PM, glen <[email protected]> wrote: > Roger Critchlow wrote at 09/23/2013 01:49 PM: > > Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit. >> > > Yeah, but did the IT person [know of allegations of|suspect] racist txt > messages (or something else) _before_ they read them? If not, why did they > read them? ... for kicks? ... bored during the copy process? If I gave > you my phone to copy the data to a new device, would you read the text > messages on there? > > To some extent, I think it might be typical for sysadmin types (e.g. > Snowden) to read things they shouldn't read. And it flows well with the > stereotype of IT tech support being snarky or dismissive to their customers > ... a kind of grandiosity, entitlement, or unjustified superiority. > > > And the school board was prepared to overlook the matter until someone >> leaked the transcripts to the district attorney's office. >> > > There's another similarity to the NSA case, I suppose ... but we can say > the same about, say, Anthony Wiener ... or prostitution patronizing > televangelists ... don't "come clean" until you get caught. > > > It seems that if you hand your cell phone to someone to have them transfer >> everything on it onto a new phone, you really can't have any expectations >> about privacy. >> > > Right. But the point is, can you have expectations of privacy at all, any > where, any time, with any task? If so, where, when, what tasks? It > strikes me that the more coupled we are into a collective, the less private > we are. Full stop. If you want privacy, you need to live off the grid, by > yourself, in the wilderness. But if you want to be a productive member of > society, you have to submit to open data, open source, open everything. > > > -- > =><= glen e. p. ropella > The first ones to sizzle on the judgement day > > > ==============================**============================== > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/**listinfo/friam_redfish.com<http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >
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