Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant
by maxerickson on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @01:55PM
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Is it reasonable to have different feelings about an automated system than some random person?
The ad-bots at Google aren't known to be very gossipy.
(I don't mean this to be snide. I think this is an instance of a very interesting phenomenon, where we reason about our society as if it were a village.)
Re:IRS claims it can read your e-mail without a warrant
by rayiner on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:05PM
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The law avoids anthropomorphizing computers. So the "person" here is Google, not the ad-bots. The ad-bots are just tools used by the person who has access to your e-mail.
The ad-bots at Google aren't known to be very gossipy.
(I don't mean this to be snide. I think this is an instance of a very interesting phenomenon, where we reason about our society as if it were a village.)