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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
Anything done on the internet is out in the public, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy.
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This is not true. If my computer connects to a server of yours and they exchange data, these data are *not* public. They are known to me and you alone. If they are encrypted, even sniffing the IP packets cannot lead (without effort) to the original data. So: things done on the internet are generally not public, unless you want them to be.
If you and I are talking on the sidewalk, this does not mean that the things we are saying are public, i.e. that it's legal for someone else to record our voices from afar, then use or sell or distribute the information gathered this way.