[Year 12 SofDev] Adrian's SAC 401- Legal Advice

[Adrian Janson]

Hi Russell,

 

One of the reasons that I included the bit about the lengthy licence
agreement is that it has been shown (and I am not sure of how to prove
this.) but lengthy licence agreements like this don't hold any weight in a
court of law as they are highly unethical.  Now - I know that unethical and
illegal and two different things (and this is what makes a good discussion
point), but there was a legal case where a court in the US ruled that it was
unreasonable for the user to be expected to read such as lengthy agreement
and then ruled in the favour of the user.

 

Someone might have some good links for this?

 

As for the camera footage - not sure about this one, but it is certainly
unethical.

 

Cheers,

Adrian

 

Adrian Janson, 

VITTA President

Director of ICT, 

Melbourne High School, 

Forrest Hill, South Yarra 3141 Australia.

Phone: 03 9826 0711 International: +61 3 9826 0711

Fax: 03 9826 8767 International: +61 3 9826 8767

E-mail:  <mailto:janson.adrian.a at edumail.vic.gov.au>
janson.adrian.a at edumail.vic.gov.au

Website:  <http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au> http://www.mhs.vic.edu.au

Blog:  <http://jansona.edublogs.org/> http://jansona.edublogs.org

 

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Russell Quinn
Sent: Wednesday, 17 September 2008 9:14 AM
To: sofdev at edulists.com.au
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Adrian's SAC 401- Legal Advice

 

Hi all,

         I am having trouble working out

If The Web Cam activation is actually illegal.  

Would the output constitute an employee record

and is agreeing upon logon binding - given the

shifty way it was implemented?

 

TIA

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