[53935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Schwartz)
Tue Dec 3 13:42:30 2002
From: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <David.Charlap@marconi.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:41:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <3DECCD75.2060109@marconi.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 03 Dec 2002 10:27:49 -0500, David Charlap wrote:
>I don't know what (if any) legal right of privacy is in Nigeria,=
but I
>would suspect that a publicly posted policy notice (like=
"management
>reserves the right to monitor all traffic" and a strict TOS=
policy)
>should mitigate any legal concerns about doing this.
=09My experience has been that it is illegal in most countries and=
generally
considered unethical to intercept the communications of third=
parties without
their knowledge. Notifying people that you reserve the right to=
intercept
their communications does not provide them with the knowledge=
that their
communications are being intercepted. Knowing that your=
communications might
be intercepted or that someone has the right to intercept them is=
not the
same as knowing that they *are* being intercepted.
=09If you want to do this, your notification has to be explicit. I=
suggest,
"You have no privacy here. Everything you are doing is being=
logged." Notice
that when you tell people the truth, it starts looking less like=
what you
wanted to do in the first place.
=09I think it's obvious that a wishy-washy "mangement reserves the=
right to
monitor all traffic" is an attempt to deceive your customers. I=
strongly
recommend not doing that.
=09DS
