Yahoo are to start reading peoples emails.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/07/11/yahoo_email_read/
This is why I do not use services that do things I have no control over. Why is email considered "exempt" from the laws that cover postage or phone messages? I would have thought "privacy laws" would cover this no?
(Or is it one law for the media empire, another for the ISP?)
I think unless you run your own mail server any admin can read whatever they want.
The link doesn't work for me.
I've no problems with IDNet and OpenDNS (bit slower)
Using OpenDNS -
Bad Request
Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.
Apache/2.2.16 (Debian) Server at forums.theregister.co.uk Port 80
Quote from: Steve on Jul 11, 2011, 22:55:56
I've no problems with IDNet and OpenDNS (bit slower)
Same issue.
Quote from: Technical Ben on Jul 11, 2011, 21:45:13
Yahoo are to start reading peoples emails.
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2011/07/11/yahoo_email_read/
This is why I do not use services that do things I have no control over. Why is email considered "exempt" from the laws that cover postage or phone messages? I would have thought "privacy laws" would cover this no?
(Or is it one law for the media empire, another for the ISP?)
Someone once said- "If you're not prepared to have it read out in a court of law, don't write it."
An excellent precept to follow, imho.
Sorry, wrong link... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/11/yahoo_email_read/