2006-11-20 03:52:41 · 12 answers · asked by BrilliantPomegranate 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
No, you are using the equipment provided for you as an employee, and the school has the right to ensure that it is NOT being used for any illegal purpose. If you don't like the terms of the contract you sign so that you can use school computers for e mails, then you should just stop using it. They will also monitor the web sites you, or any of the pupils, visit.
2006-11-20 04:14:27 · answer #1 · answered by mike-from-spain 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope. They own the machine, they own the network.
Reading e-mail that is stored on a computer is not an "interception" under 18 U.S.C. § 2510, et seq., because an interception must be contemporaneous with the transmission of the message between different locations. Steve Jackson Games v. U.S. Secret Service, 816 F.Supp. 432, 442 (W.D.Tex. 1993), aff'd, 36 F.3d 457, 460 (5thCir. 1994). This holding has been accepted in several subsequent cases, including Wesley College v. Pitts, 974 F.Supp. 375, 384-390 (D.Del. 1997); U.S. v. Moriarty, 962 F.Supp. 217, 221 (D.Mass. 1997); Bohach v. City of Reno, 932 F.Supp. 1232, 1235-36 (D.Nev. 1996).
2006-11-20 04:07:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are lucky if they allow you to open your mails in class. They could put a bar on any mails at all. You are there to learn Computer Science not to receive personal mail or to send it.
2006-11-20 04:04:05 · answer #3 · answered by WISE OWL 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I had to sign, as well as my sons, a contract in order for them to use the schools' computer. This contract gave them the right.
2006-11-20 04:02:49 · answer #4 · answered by JC 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Minor's don't have rights unless they are emancipated or you can pay for a lawyer!! Until the other day, children and woman were considered property (chattel) of the husband.
2006-11-20 04:15:59 · answer #5 · answered by ICujael 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It may not be legally wrong, but ethically i think it is. They have no right to read your diary so why should they get your e-mails.
2006-11-20 04:08:03 · answer #6 · answered by jb 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No its not. You are using the school's equipment so they have the right to do what they want.
2006-11-20 03:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by RACQUEL 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
no. the computer belongs to the school.not you.anyway your at school. you should not be sending mail or reading mail.should only be used for homework.
2006-11-20 04:17:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not as long as you are retrieveing your email from the schools property, they can do whatever they want!
2006-11-20 03:57:41 · answer #9 · answered by Obamunism 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
No its not - you are using their equipment on their property.
2006-11-20 03:58:10 · answer #10 · answered by Akkita 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋