Instant messaging --> now what?

[Peter L. Peres]

On Tue, 30 Sep 2003, Keith Mastin wrote:
>
> > What legal issue ? Whose privacy ? I respect your opinion, but by this
> > logic talking privately on the corridor of a downtown mall during lunch
> > break would make the mall owners responsible for the content of the
> > discussion, and mandate them to record it so they can cover themselves
> > in case something happens as a result of that discussion. The next step
> > would be the interdiction of congregation, which is not unknown under
> > martial rule. You would like to impose both of these things, without
> > martial law ? Come on.
>
> The FTC (?) stateside just made it a law to secure any personal customer
> or client data stored on publically accessible servers. This came down on
> sept 29, so it might be related somehow.

Now you lost me. What is the sense of the word 'secure' and what is a
'publically accessible server' in the sense used above ? I am not
nitpicking, I am too stunned to react yet. Any pointers on what this
FTC action is/called ?

tia,

Peter
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