Re: chat logging in AOL IM and battle.net?

From: Walter Roberson (roberson@ibd.nrc.ca)
Date: 11/10/02 

From: roberson@ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson)
Date: 10 Nov 2002 04:03:53 GMT

In article <bcarsuso0rv6qfqnsr34af99si7mjombi0@4ax.com>,
 <name@company.com> wrote:
:On 9 Nov 2002 21:21:21 GMT, roberson@ibd.nrc.ca (Walter Roberson)
:wrote:
:>I'd suggest that before struggling with the technical aspects, that you
:>first struggle with the legal aspects. The laws vary noticably from
:>jurisdiction to jurisdiction, but in a number of the areas served by
:>AOL, what you propose would be legally considered wire tapping and/or a
:>violation of civil rights.

:Maybe - but since we're talking about minor children and a computer
:system presumably *owned* by the parent I say go ahead and log away.
:I'd hate to be the parent the morning *after* your daughter runs off
:to meet some perv she met on AOL...

And I'd hate to be the parent whose children were taken away from
them because Daddy was sent to Levensworth on a felony count of
wiretapping the family computer. I do hope you haven't been
assuming that wiretap laws have exemptions for the owners of the
equipment: in many many jurisdictions, ownership of the equipment
is no defence at all.

The legal boundaries of what parents are allowed to do, what
parents are required to do, and what parents must not do,
are not at all clear, and the boundaries are evolving rapidly.
Recording someone's conversations is risky without good *local*
legal advice.

I've never heard of any law requiring that minors be given unsupervised
access to the Internet. It's perfectly valid (in law) to create house
rules that "You can't use the computer unless Mommy or Daddy is sitting
beside you watching what you are doing." If, though, you don't have a
good raport with your children, you're not going to hear much about who
they are communicating with when they are over at a friend's house, or
in the school lab, or visiting the library. And if you -do- have
good raport, you likely don't need to be watching everything they
say or thinking about recording it all. 

--
   Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
   -- Rich Kulawiec

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