Blogging and Privacy

Found this article discussing legal issues about blogs, expectation of privacy to be quite interesting.

Evidence from personal journals has been used in criminal cases for a long time and subjected to the gristmill of legal analysis. The blog, a hybrid format, poses new questions about where the line between public and private can be drawn on the Web.[FOOTNOTE 3]

In essence, blogs are electronically accessible versions of private diaries and personal papers -- sharing the qualities of print journals in substance and computer evidence in form.

Funny - I have no expectation of privacy blogging. While some use their blogs as a "personal journal" - willingly publishing the blog on the web - where anyone can see it - seems to nullify any expectation of privacy you may have originally had.

The expectation of privacy in an electronic journal, and society's recognition of that expectation as reasonable, will depend on Internet era definitions of constitutional principles. The blog is a dynamic piece of evidence at the tip of the print and digital convergence. It remains for the courts to provide guidance as the first prosecutions relying on blogs are litigated.