YOU might expect the Chinese authorities to pay scant regard to electronic privacy, but surely things are different in the US. Apparently not. A federal court in Massachusetts ruled on 29 June that an internet service provider that had copied and read customers’ emails was not breaking the law.
Privacy advocates are calling it an “extremely dangerous decision”. They say it leaves the door wide open for abuse of people’s personal information.
At issue was whether a now defunct company, Interloc, which provided internet services, violated the US’s wire-tap laws when it scanned the contents of its customers’ emails without…
