Recently it was revealed Yahoo spies on its users, and there is even a price list. $40 for anything you want to know about a username, including chat logs.
I will just assume Gmail has a similar "secret" price list. Probably there is a law somewhere requiring they provide this information to government agents?
Now what happens if Yahoo's records are tampered with? I hate to make a movie reference, but do you remember what happened in Minority Report? Change a few bytes around and now some innocent person looks like a criminal, or vice versa. Supposedly you can't access these records unless someone's life is in danger. Is that really an obstacle? Seems like this would encourage the fabrication of death threats to get access to Yahoo's records.
If I say something in public walking down the street - people may hear me and they may act on what I say. If a policeman overhears me say "I just stole a computer from this store" are they allowed to use this information? Do they need a warrant to use what I say in public?
Why should online behavior be any different? I choose to make my comments public and they I get upset when people use and act upon my public comments.
Hmm, sounds like everybody wants their cake and a chance to eat it too!
It should have to, but national security statutes allow organizations like the CIA the ability to keep tight lipped about it for the protection of American citizens. So there should be full disclosure of activities on social networking surveillance in my opinion, but I doubt there will be for some time - it's too much of a gold mine.
Could Internet Evolution comments count as "social media interaction"? I think it would be nice to know the measure to which our comments here will be held [other places too].
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