See, this is the thing about privacy and security on the internet. The law doesn't matter. Well, it matters, but is no guarantee at all that privacy and security will be maintained. In this article we read that a state agency released the names and addresses of Georgia teachers despite a law prohibiting such an action. Now the release may have been purely accidental, but the lesson is concrete: the fact that it could be done meant that, eventually, it was done. This should be a founding principle in any discussio of the law versus technology.
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