 owenhomekeeper of the magic blue smokePremium
join:2002-07-13
Bentonville, AR | I don't thing so! What they cannot take away is your "reasonable expectation of privacy". If in the actual use of the app, you expect that your conversation is private, but in fact it is not, they have violated your rights and may even be in direct conflict with federal wire tap laws.
To me, and I am sure the rest of you feel the same way, a two party chat is basically the same as a phone call. You do not expect that someone will be listening in to the conversation. And they shouldn't be without a warrant. This is the same to me. Their TOS is meaningless. It's meaningless because it's well known that nobody ever reads it so their expectation of privacy is still reasonable. The only good solution would be to be blatant about it, such as putting a banner across the top of the client informing the user of the lack of privacy. Anybody up for a lawsuit????
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