Save a Chatlog... Go to Prison

[Florida_Geek]

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/13/1356216

"You are engaged in a chat session with some friends and colleagues, when one of them makes a witty remark or imparts a pithy bit of information. You hit CTRL-A and select the conversation, then copy it to a document that you save. Under a little-noticed decision in a New Hampshire Superior Court in late February, these actions may just land you in jail. New Hampshire is "two-party consent state" -- one of those jurisdictions that requires all parties to a conversation to consent before the conversation can be intercepted or recorded. The decision is the first of its kind to apply that standard to online chats, and the ruling is clearly supported by the text of the law. But it marks a blow to an investigative technique that has been routinely used by law enforcement, employers, ISPs and others, who often use video tape or othermeans to track criminals in chat rooms. This also has troublesome implications monitoring of email and other forms of electronic communications."


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[fob]

1. When recording a phone call you can either state that fact or

have a 'beep' every 30(?) seconds. If I post 'beep' every 3rd message, you are being recorded!

[outinforce]

2. What About This?

You an a colleague are exchanging emails.

When you reply to her emails, the emails you send to her include the text of her email that you are replying to. And, when she replies to your emails, you see your email that she is replying to.

At one point while you are exchanging emails, you happen to think of a friend that you think would be interested in what you and your colleague are talking about in your exchange of emails.

And so you forward to your friend the emails that you and your colleague have been exchnaging.

Would this be illegal in New Hampshire?

[fob]

3. 'beep'

nt

[stuff]

4. That's awesome

I wonder if your browser cache counts.

[progressiveBadger]

6. Another Microsoft lawsuit a-comin

[mouse7]

5. I got PISSED at someone keeping chatlogs without permission

I was in a Hockey chatroom. The chat was utterly meaningless. Matter of fact, I'm pretty sure it was a Lemieux vs. Gretzky argument. Someone pulled out a chat log transcript and I got all kinds of pissed.

And that was for a meaningless sports argument.

[Solon]

7. I would say that there should be lower standards on posting opinions

Especially in a chatroom. I know as common sense that no conversation I have on this board or in a chatroom is 'confidential'. Unlike phone calls, or even e-mail, you should have no expectation of privacy on the internet when posted publicly. Usually this is stated in the privacy policies of the boards in question, but even if not, I do not see saving let say this thread as a violation of privacy. That is stupid. At least in e-mail you could tell the peron you are sending to to not forward that e-mail to others.

[Florida_Geek]

8. I think it is stupid myself.

But the things some states come up with.

But as an expert on one-sided recording, hehehe I know for a fact (as of 3 years ago) only 9 States have laws against it. And there is an exception in the Federal law that permits it for individuals.