Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric wrote: > That's ebay's policy. Why wouldn't it be legal? If the police knock > on > your house without a warrant, you are free to invite them in and let > them > look around. Yeah, but imagine you're sharing a house with someone else: a friend. The police knock on your house without a warrant, you invite them in, and show them your friend's room, their correspondance, the binders with their financial statements... Or you're staying in a hotel. Someone faxes the hotel and gets a fax back from the concierge with your home address, telephone number, the license plate of the car you parked outside, the number of the credit card that you used to pay the room, and a list of phone calls that you've made from there. The thing that bothers me about eBay's (and, it would seem, other Internet companies) practice is that in their fervour to appear cooperative with law enforcement, they appear to be leaving themselves wide open to exploitation by other individuals posing as law enforcement officers attempting identity theft. Given that identity theft is one of the things that has struck eBay particularly hard recently (fake auctions, often antiques) one would think that they would exercise a little more caution in these matters. M. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html