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I want the job of reading the emails from here. Better than porn!

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yikes Orwellian

Orwellian...you're absolutely right! You win! You said the 'Magic Word'! (parody of an old Quiz Show tag line)
This was proposed over a year ago in regarards to 'security measures' requested by various 'Intelligence' agencies to better our lives and security from those proverbial 'enemas of the State' and no, they didn't mean themselves...

Had to happen sooner or later. They were scanning email here in the states for quite a while before we even found out. P'd off when I first learned about it, but then after thinking some it really didn't bother me. The way I understand it, they scan for certain key words that red flag the message for closer inspection. Some of what I write might be embarrasing to me or another but if by doing so they can avert just one attack or save one life, decided I could live with it. Only thing that really bothers me is the possibility that the info could be used for the wrong reasons. Jmo.

You're not reading mine!

Wow... I am thinking about an e-mail I just sent somebody.

Yes - the reasons, ummm - okay for national/international security purposes I agree - but can you imagine the panic if it can be used for public domain access, such as a husband or wife demanding all email generated by their spouse as evidence for divorce reasons!

And that, Woody, is the source of the problem. Private emails are just that...PRIVATE. I should not have to censor what I say to someone I'm dating when I'm emailing privately with them. I don't care that my posts on here are public, but the day my emails become public and stored on my IP server is the day I go offline. Period. Except for business and school, that is.

Big Brother has no right to watch us.

well if the state tells me their secrets ,

I will tell the state mine



they know enough already

solitare

I'm 100% behind you on this - I'd do the same - I wonder if it would mean that all of us on this site would have to stop swapping email addresses and use the email through the site instead? Or do you think big brother would want to monitor that too?

My brother use to say, what ever you say on the computer, is always be read by someone... Be careful what you say, he once mentioned, nothing is safe anymore.......hummmmmm

See, Indelady and Wendy! I was right!!

And I know what I've sent and received.

Think back to Monica Lewinsky and how easy it was to get her mails off the server for evidence..........or any number of other people you hear about on the news or real crime programs...

That was then... It's worse now...

My son makes and runs servers for his buisiness clients. He has to keep everything that goes through them for years, as evidence of fraud or misconduct for future court cases.

This is nothing new. He has been doing this for over 10 years now. What we write has always been open to investigation. They just avoided telling us until now.

Anyone who wants to know anything about any of us can get it online if they know where to look. They don't even need hacking abilities. We give away information all the time voluntarily.

Names, family members, friends, addresses, credit card details, travel information, pictures, preferences in lifestyles in chatrooms, mails, everything anyone wants to know about us basically...in places like this, Hi5, facebook, bebo etc...

It's all there on the servers for anyone who knows how to access it any time they want.......

For police or government purposes it's even easier. There is no limit to what they can access...

Erm, Geeeze all my, more risque emails to my guy . . .

Sheesh we better go back to snail mail but I think they do the same there. . .

Mails between people planning a life together being someones dinner conversation fodder. . . oh uh, ugh . . .

Oh, I believe they'd monitor all of it, since it all goes through your IP server. I'd have one heck of an international phone bill, or start sending letters through the mail for the first time in my life.

Shoot...email was the best thing that ever came along in my books! I could write letters, but for some reason could never get them into the mailbox with a stamp on them.

I even had trouble handing them to my SGT in the Army for him to mail. My best friend was PISSED when I came out of the Army with 17 letters for her, bound in a ribbon.

It is an invasion of privacy. Period!. But this should be no surprise since the American president G.W. Bush started all the erosion of individual rights after 9-11. Other puppet governments follow his lead, when they can't think for themselves.