By Polly Raymond, 14 January 2000 14:22
NEWS A Washington state judge has ruled that privacy laws held over traditional communication methods should not apply to email and chat rooms, according to a US wire today. The landmark ruling is likely to upset privacy rights lobbyists; it came from a criminal case this week where emails were used as evidence in court. The judge ruled that people that use email and chat rooms automatically revoke their right to privacy because the data is by nature recorded onto the recipient's computer. The protection of email privacy is currently under review in at the UK Home Office where legislation is being devised surrounding the whole issue of consumer protection offset by the need to guard against cyber-crime.
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