Roger Critchlow wrote at 09/23/2013 01:49 PM:Yeah, but did the IT person [know of allegations of|suspect] racist txt messages (or something else) _before_ they read them? If not, why did they read them? ... for kicks? ... bored during the copy process? If I gave you my phone to copy the data to a new device, would you read the text messages on there?
Well, it wasn't just any normal employee audit.
To some extent, I think it might be typical for sysadmin types (e.g. Snowden) to read things they shouldn't read. And it flows well with the stereotype of IT tech support being snarky or dismissive to their customers ... a kind of grandiosity, entitlement, or unjustified superiority.There's another similarity to the NSA case, I suppose ... but we can say the same about, say, Anthony Wiener ... or prostitution patronizing televangelists ... don't "come clean" until you get caught.
And the school board was prepared to overlook the matter until someone
leaked the transcripts to the district attorney's office.
Right. But the point is, can you have expectations of privacy at all, any where, any time, with any task? If so, where, when, what tasks? It strikes me that the more coupled we are into a collective, the less private we are. Full stop. If you want privacy, you need to live off the grid, by yourself, in the wilderness. But if you want to be a productive member of society, you have to submit to open data, open source, open everything.
It seems that if you hand your cell phone to someone to have them transfer
everything on it onto a new phone, you really can't have any expectations
about privacy.
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