Jill did an article on how the children in Washington State have more rights than parents when it comes to privacy.  And it was a hot topic!  But the truth is that is what the ADULTS of Washington wanted!  They voted for the clowns that made the law (and that is the words of a native Washingtonian, not me!), and refused to revise it 3 times now.

Perhaps they will now, but I dont fault the court for upholding the law.  That is what they are supposed to do!

Instead, I want to tell you about laws in most of the other states.  Granted many are red or (for the feeble of mind, Jesusland) States.

But in those states,the legislature has decreed, and I fully support them in this, that your email, documents and web surfing done on company owned computers is not only their business, but their property, and they can eaves drop on you anytime they want.  that includes your phone conversations.

Well, other than a hot email or phone call to my wife (I usually use my private cell phone, so not much there you wascally voyeurs!), I never expected mine to be.  Indeed, I do not send or receive (coda: more on this in a min) personal or compromising email that I dont expect them all to see!

I am network, not security, and I know they have access to all of it, but I dont care.

Except the porn spam I get!  Dont we all?  But as long as I dont click, I figure I am ok, right? 

Nah!  Because those message have seeds that goto the porn sites anyway.  So I try not to even open them!  Still, I know that if someone wanted to nail me, they could bring up a bunch of sites I have never visited, but when I opened a message from 'Chris' (A friend) that said Hi, that took me to a nasty site, I am in deep dodo!  Until I can explain it.

And most  people can easily as this is very common.  As long as you do not click on the links in the site (i.e visit it further) the Security folks know what is going on.

But that brings us to the nexus of this entry.  While we have no rights (only common sense) when it deals with our work correspondance and browsing, we could, if the security people were so inclined, be fired for not what we did, but what was done to us.

I.e., not even what we say, but what was sent. 

I will admit that is an extreme scenerio.  And unless you have an enemy in the Security department, you are ok as well.

BUT!  It also means we have less rights than the creep in Washington State!  While we have not done anything wrong, we can actually be fired or worse (in extreme cases) prosecuted!

And that little shit gets off?

Does anyone other than me see a major problem here?

The time to change the laws that are so stupid that you can fire someone for getting spam, yet you cannot protect your own children from predators!

If that had been a pedophile on the other end of the phone trying to lure that 14 year old into an illicit rendevous, the clowns in Washington would not have been able to do a damn thing!

But if it was some schmoe opening an email message at work that he did not solicit?  His (her) life is ruined.

Guess sanity has left politics and headed for the hills, cause that duck dont fly!