If your instant messages are being read for your protection, but the agency reports irrelevant details to your parents, is that legal? Doesn't that break some kind of privacy law?
2007-12-29 16:17:18 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
To read your IMs any Federal government agency needs a wiretap warrant issued by a Federal judge upon a showing of probable cause that there's a Federal crime being committed.
If all that has already happened, your parents finding out what you're saying is the LEAST of your worries.
Richard
2007-12-29 16:21:24 · answer #1 · answered by rickinnocal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No they can not report those types of communications it certainly is incorrect, minors have Rights too.
Wire Tap Laws spell out the protocols very clearly. Get a Lawyer. "Rights to privacy" ... ever heard of those?
2007-12-30 00:26:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends on your age. If you are over 18 it is ilegal for them to tell anything.
How are you being "Protected" by the reading of your IM? Seems like you might need a lawyer who knows what he is talking about.
2007-12-30 00:28:03 · answer #3 · answered by organbuilder272 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too few details. Are you a minor? Do the terms of use of your service allow this?
Be careful, they seem to be reading everyone's IMs and email lately.
2007-12-30 00:25:04 · answer #4 · answered by carterchas 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would have to go with no, absolutely not. A huge waste of time on their hands and really bothersome for a lot of people... but not illegal. Unless you were planning a school shooting, bombing...etc, then i would understand them telling your parents (and authorities in those harsh situations).
2007-12-30 00:22:07 · answer #5 · answered by seth B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋