@Robert Gentel,
Robert Gentel wrote:
sarek wrote:My background is in law and I am pretty sure that what you did does constitute a breach of privacy regulations as they are commonly understood.
Quote:In my view the procedure mentioned above does not qualify as such. Hence, evidence obtained by this method does not count as evidence legally obtained.
Unless you mean something like being on COPS once or twice as your legal "background" I would recommend trying to get your money back. Your post doesn't show even a layman's understanding of law.
We are perfectly within our legal rights to delete PM spam, this is just more of the usual feckless legal claims we see from vaguely-credentialed law-backgroundists.
I must be on the right track here as witnessed by the fact that you deem it necessary to resort to ad hominem arguments without bothering to further substantiate your own arguments or redeem mine.
I assure you my credentials are as real as they get, but that as an aside.
Let me reiterate, in case you failed to accurately analyse my original position.
A. You got forwarded one or more of those spam PM's
B. You checked your database for a match
C. You found not one, but several hundred matches.
Which to my mind means you have ascertained that the contents of at least 500 pm's were identical to the few you obtained legally.
I think that counts as reading people's private communications.
Or do you think that if you tell the computer to tap someone's phone or email traffic(a la echelon), that would not qualify as tapping it yourself?
You basically used the contents of an entire message as your search string.
And what is frankly bothering me even more than any kind of legal issue, is a simple matter of trust and confidence. That was badly shaken by these actions.
That begs the question, are we as members of A2k safe here on this forum?
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