If you live in the realm of the First Circuit Court of Appeals as I do in New England, your privacy rights just took a hit. The Court ruled that a Massachusetts ISP did not break the law in reading his customers’ communications without their consent. In overturning the ISP’s conviction under wiretap laws, as I read it, the decision turns on semantic hairsplitting and allows your email provider to fulfill the letter while violating the spirit of privacy protection laws. And this was not a case driven by misguided post-9/11 patriotism but, rather, simple greed. (Wired News)