Slashdot pointed me to this fascinating piece by James Grimmelman on LawMeme (which I've never followed before but will watch in the future):
Accidental Privacy Spills: Musings on Privacy, Democracy, and the Internet
The article discusses the spread of a personal email by Laurie Garrett, a journalist attending on the January World Economic Forum in Davos. Particularly, iit addresses Garrett's (justifiable?) anger at learned that her "private" email had been forwarded without her permission by someone in her circle of trust and had subsequently been discussed by "techno-liberalists" on lists such as MetaFilter.
All in all, I think that this piece ties together a lot of the themes we've discussed so far in class.
Posted by dcplumer at February 28, 2003 10:38 PMBoy that was long. I didn't get through it all but from what I gather, this seems to be a very imaginable scenario - but one that is in the minority given the amount of email sent on a daily basis without the drama this woman experienced.
Posted by: Amanda on March 1, 2003 06:11 PM