If the B.C. lawsuit against Google for its data mining of Gmail is successful, it has the potential to make anti-spam and anti-virus software that scans emails illegal.
Similar cases have been launched in the United States, where Eric Goldman, a professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and director of the High Tech Law Institute, has characterized them as “are-you-kidding-me” lawsuits.
“If electronic scrutiny of private email constitutes an interception then all anti-spam software violates that as well … the same probably with virus checkers,” Goldman said when asked about the lawsuit filed Thursday in BC Supreme Court.
Well, it is the silly season, after all.
I'm sure that the courts will recognize that this is not only a frivolous lawsuit, but one that has the potential to destroy 40 the last years of communications technology. No way that they'll side with this schlub against the entire rest of the world, just to stick it to an ebil, ebil corporation.
Heh. Nah, just kidding. We're doomed.
Heh. Nah, just kidding. We're doomed.
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