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Right to privacy in this country?
I have a question that is open for intelligent comment. I am running on Windows 7 Professional. Every two or three days, I am notified of updates. When I engage these updates, they change the format of my computer. They will reconfigure everything and I end up with a different window that is totally different from the one I customized. So, I got to thinking, why would Microsoft fix something that doesn’t need fixing. Why all the updates? Even an idiot knows you don’t fix something that is working perfectly. So, I did a little snooping around. Understand, this is only my opinion that is open for comment. How would you all feel, if you found out that Microsoft allowed the Government a means to not only read your E-Mails, but invade your computer and snoop around and they did so with these inane updates. Which brings to question, is Yahoo and other websites going along with this? It makes one ask, what happened to the right to privacy. So, is there anyone out there that knows what I am talking about?
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- 10 years agoFavorite Answer
i know what you are talking about, and with the advancement of technology and how interconnected it is, there are always status updates popping up and are done automatically sometimes. the government does not have the time or resources to read every email..our emails are however scanned for key words which might indicate illegal activity, such as bomb and or terrorism. but they do not care about your auntie karen's cookout on saturday, and whether or not you will rsvp...
a person does not have a direct right to privacy explicitly stated in the constitution..it is implied, and the government has the right to restrict it, if in fact it is in the governments best interest. also, for something to fall under your right to privacy, you must have taken reasonable steps to protect it...and sending something out over the internet, with all the hackers and scammers out there and the fact that they do keyword scan emails...well are you taking the reasonable steps? maybe not if its not encrypted...
Source(s): constitutional law school student - traiLv 710 years ago
Yep. I know exactly what you're talking about.
My counter argument is that anything you post to a global system of interconnected computer networks which exists for the sole purpose of the *sharing* of information at the speed of light is, by definition, NOT private.
