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I assume that everything I read, write, upload or download on the Internet and dates, times and IP addresses are being recorded by several governmental agencies at any given moment. Thus far, I have rarely been proven wrong. I assume everything I do on the Internet could just as well have been shouted at the top of my lungs in a football stadium. It is in this sense that I think privacy statements, while being a profitable marketing gesture for a business, offers no more privacy than no statement at all. Let us say you are going to tell someone over Ekiga about some terrible crime you will commit. Do you really think you will escape police intervention or a prison sentence because of a privacy statement? I guess you could try and file a lawsuit from a prison cell, but would it not be easier to accept my interpretation of VoIP as shouting in a football stadium? Finally, a lawyer could butt in and tell us all these complicated issues and scenarios and pitfalls, and the infinite variances in different countries. Again, would it not be easier to just assume you are shouting in a football stadium and just accept the Internet does not have much mercy for privacy? Dominic Climb to the top of the charts! Play the word scramble challenge with star power. Play now! |