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Big Brother Won't Watch Judges
The good guys win! You may remember
Tuesday's story
about whether internet surveillance should extend to judges and their staff. Good news. As James Tyre writes in a
detailed summary
over on our website at censorware.net,
"How can we be at the end when today is September 7, but the Judicial Conference does not meet until September 11? Because the AO [the Administrative Office of the Courts] blinked, caved, gave up, threw in the towel, that's how."
the problem is there is a big difference between you and a judge. you are an employee, the computer and network you use is provided by your company to do your job, the company is therefore responsible for anything you do on that computer, and therefore has a legal obligation to it's share holders (or owners as the case may be) to monitor your activity. the judge on the other hand is for all intents and purposes an independent contractor, the computer and network are provided him for his own discretionary use, only the judge is responsible for what he does with that computer. on top of that, there is no expectation of privacy in the work place. if you are sent mail (snail mail) at your place of work, that mail is essentially property of the company, the company has a right and as stated before, an obligation to know what is in that mail. much of what a judge deals with is extremely confidential, and to monitor that material would be a major breech of security, and the confidentiality of the litigants that appear in his court.
Some may think that we've won, but probably not.
It all depend who big brother is, becasue there
are judges should be watched closely and stripped
of their status, and thrown out of the court room.
There are some that unquestinably support
religions and decisions that religious leaders make
and do anything to commit justice as for profit of
the religion.
There always alot more to things like that that
is not reported.
p.